(a.) Pure from unlawful sexual intercourse; virtuous; continent.
(a.) Pure in thought and act; innocent; free from lewdness and obscenity, or indecency in act or speech; modest; as, a chaste mind; chaste eyes.
(a.) Pure in design and expression; correct; free from barbarisms or vulgarisms; refined; simple; as, a chaste style in composition or art.
(a.) Unmarried.
Example Sentences:
(1) They were also remote from Chast, not particularly nurturing, and very much parents, not friends.
(2) Watson, of Harry Potter fame, tweeted a photograph of herself doubled up in stitches and linking to the Guardian report of the Twitter backlash against Turkish deputy prime minister Bülent Arinç, who said in a speech to mark Eid al-Fitr on Monday that women should be "chaste", know the difference between public and private, and "she should not laugh in public".
(3) Chast did all the things one has to do; she put them somewhere decent and clean.
(4) As her parents lay dying, Chast dragged herself back to their apartment and started the grim task of sifting through a lifetime of worthless possessions.
(5) We are in the kitchen of Chast's house, overlooking her garden.
(6) Awareness campaigns on the dangers of unprotected sex largely target the young, while the media continues to perpetuate the stereotype of older people as impotent and chaste or perverted and figures of ridicule.
(7) Those who know and love Chast's work think of her as the queen of family angst, a brilliant chronicler of domestic strife, and the account of her parents' last year – as they move from the apartment, to hospital, to a care home in Connecticut – is an extraordinary record of the love, fury and ambivalence that often characterises these experiences.
(8) Her lurid totem with black lacy detailing edged it over Richard’s more chaste mill and Luis’s industrial mechanism.
(9) There's a danger of anachronism here - it feels like a very modern civil partnership – as there is too with the boys' habit of saving slave girls, spoils of war, from ravishment by their fellow soldiers by claiming them chastely for themselves, and promising earnestly never to kill unarmed men.
(10) "Her emotions were very primary colours," says Chast.
(11) However, in the hot summer of 1912 an initially chaste and awkward relationship, punctuated with readings of Housman poems and stilted conversations about Eros, swiftly took wing.
(12) Roz Chast explores her relationship with her parents in her graphic memoir.
(13) Her father died first, aged 95, and as Chast's relationship with him had been closer, she was less riven by guilt than she was during her mother's last days.
(14) Chast had done right by them, but she was still sick with regret after they were gone.
(15) 2) Strictness in child rearing, shielding the child from any knowledge of sexual relations and its possible outcome in the hope of keeping her chaste but in fact often leading to early sexual relations.
(16) And so, when Chast's mother injured herself in a fall and her father started showing signs of dementia, Chast moved them to a care home near her house, where the contrast in weekly expenditure was so horrifying, she says, you could only laugh.
(17) But the feelings inside it would be false, because what all of us, young and old, felt was embarrassment and, on my part, sympathy for a father whose belief in chaste language had just been discounted as an unsophisticated prejudice by a famous person – an intellectual even, and we tended to like those – on television.
(18) Anne later said they had played cards in the bed, and told a lady-in-waiting that her husband was a perfect gentleman, giving her a greeting and a chaste kiss each night and before he left her in the morning.
(19) The first indication Roz Chast had that her elderly parents weren't coping was when she noticed the level of grime in their apartment.
(20) Nymphomaniac stars Charlotte Gainsbourg as Joe, who recounts her life story to a chaste, lonely bachelor named Seligman, played by Stellan Skarsgård.
Innocent
Definition:
(a.) Not harmful; free from that which can injure; innoxious; innocuous; harmless; as, an innocent medicine or remedy.
(a.) Morally free from guilt; guiltless; not tainted with sin; pure; upright.
(a.) Free from the guilt of a particular crime or offense; as, a man is innocent of the crime charged.
(a.) Simple; artless; foolish.
(a.) Lawful; permitted; as, an innocent trade.
(a.) Not contraband; not subject to forfeiture; as, innocent goods carried to a belligerent nation.
(n.) An innocent person; one free from, or unacquainted with, guilt or sin.
(n.) An unsophisticated person; hence, a child; a simpleton; an idiot.
Example Sentences:
(1) At the trial Arena admitted involvement in criminal activity, but insisted he was innocent of the murders.
(2) In the UK, Coca-Cola owns Innocent smoothies while PepsiCo has Tropicana.
(3) But to treat a mistake as an automatic disqualification for advancement – even as heinous a mistake as presiding over a botched operation that resulted in the killing of an innocent man – could be depriving organisations, and the country, of leaders who have been tested and will not make the same mistake again.
(4) "They were not innocent, non-political children; these were young people who worked to actively uphold multicultural values.
(5) But Gashi told the Guardian: "I am responsible for innocent people going to jail.
(6) Drones are not only provocative and illegal in international law but have also led to the killing of many innocent civilians in other countries that has had a serious impact on how the US is perceived in the region.
(7) Dr Bhambra sustained the most dreadful life-changing injuries during a sustained racist attack on an innocent man, a member of a caring profession.” There was applause from the public gallery as the verdict was returned.
(8) But there is a difference between the loss of innocence and the growth of darkness.
(9) I do remain limited at present by what I can say due to the ongoing referral to the Criminal Cases Review Commission and whilst I continue to maintain my innocence, I wish to make it clear that I wholeheartedly apologise for the effects that night in Rhyl has had on many people, not least the woman concerned.” The 26-year-old also sought to disassociate himself for the first time from those using the internet to hound his victim.
(10) Maybe this will be increasing the frequency of patrols, or going to places that the Obama administration has been hesitant to go – such as actually undertaking a non-innocent passage military patrols within 12 miles of an artificial island.
(11) George, a loner who was said to have stalked and photographed hundreds of women, always maintained his innocence.
(12) Whitson also had strong words for Missouri Governor Jay Nixon , who has called for the “vigorous prosecution” of Wilson, calling such comments “ludicrous” and contrary to the spirit of “innocent until proven guilty”.
(13) And in today’s attack it was mostly innocent children.
(14) In its statement on Saturday, the ministry of foreign affairs accused the French journalist of “pouring fuel on the fire of terrorism and the brutal killing of innocent civilians”.
(15) However, as we watch Blade Runner , Deckard doesn’t feel like a replicant; he is dour and unengaged, but lacks his victims’ detached innocence, their staccato puzzlement at their own untrained feelings.
(16) Since the allegations became public, fans have taken to holding up homemade signs at Florida State games: "We Support Famous Jameis", "Jameis is Innocent," and "In Jameis Christ We Pray".
(17) Deschamps said: “It’s not that I don’t have confidence in Morgan, I know what he can do, but before making final decisions [on the Euro 2016 squad] it’s important that N’Golo comes with us to get more answers.” Benzema’s lawyer has previously protested his innocence, saying: “He played no part, I repeat no part, in any blackmail or attempted blackmail,” but Deschamps has passed up the opportunity to bring him back into the squad, perhaps feeling the political heat.
(18) Bryant told ESPN : "We were always confident that Chris was innocent but we just couldn't figure out what had happened.
(19) In the end, after a life of serial duplicity, innocent and otherwise, he found serenity.
(20) We can’t do this on our own.” He compared the company to smoothie maker Innocent, whose founders also decided to sell up after a blockbuster offer.