Meaning & use
Unchaste
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Not chaste; lacking sexual restraint or moral purity, according to traditional standards.
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The old sermon condemned unchaste thoughts as harshly as unchaste deeds.
Victorian novels often punished unchaste characters with social ruin.
A note on using this word
Unchaste carries strong moral and historical connotations, and today it appears mostly in literary, religious, or historical contexts rather than everyday speech.
Words with a similar meaning
immodestlicentious
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Words with an opposite meaning
chastemodest
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