promiscuous

Definition

Made up of various disparate elements mixed together; of disorderly composition.

Etymology

From Latin prōmiscuus (“mixed, not separated”), from prō (“forth”) + misceō (“mix”).

Example Sentences

• "Came singly where he stood on the bare strand, / While the promiscuous croud stood yet aloof."
• "[T]hey had both been educated [...] on plans at once narrow and promiscuous, first in an English family and afterwards in a Swiss family at Lausanne, their bachelor uncle and guardian trying in this way to remedy the disadvantages of their orphaned condition."
• "A sail caught by a promiscuous wind."

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