What's the difference between philanderer and promiscuous?

Philanderer


Definition:

  • (n.) One who hangs about women; a male flirt.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
  • (2) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
  • (3) In an affidavit, he stated: "The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect."
  • (4) But the courts appear to be drawing the curtains on the bedroom antics of high-profile philanderers by denying the women their 15 minutes of fame, or infamy.
  • (5) He may not care for effete toffs, but he got on like a house on fire with the posh MP, diarist and serial philanderer Alan Clark.
  • (6) Druggist, obstetrician, builder, lecturer, poet and philanderer, his career was a chequered and eventful one.
  • (7) In particular, the portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect.
  • (8) Shock value EastEnders: Michelle's teenage pregnancy, 1985 Viewers were kept guessing about the father of Michelle Fowler's child – revealed as Den Watts Emmerdale: plane crash, 1993 The Yorkshire soap began a trend for "stunt" disaster storylines Brookside: lesbian kiss, 1993 UK TV's first lesbian kiss between Anna Friel's Beth Jordache and Nicola Stephenson's Margaret Clemence EastEnders: buried alive, 2008 Philanderer Max Branning is buried alive by his estranged wife EastEnders: gay Muslim on-screen kiss, 2009 Property developer Syed Masood arrives in Albert Square with a girlfriend, but falls for Christian Clarke Coronation Street: tram crash, 2010 The ITV soap marked its 50th ­anniversary with the most spectacular disaster storyline yet
  • (9) Tod T Friendly, doctor and sometime philanderer, is a man whose inner self seems hidden from his passing conquests. "

Promiscuous


Definition:

  • (a.) Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass.
  • (a.) Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In addition to the well established contra-indications to use, a past history of pelvic inflammatory disease or ectopic pregnancy, promiscuity, nulliparity and age less than 25 are now considered relative contraindications.
  • (2) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
  • (3) The analysis of specific clones indicates that both peptides are very promiscuous in their capacity to bind to class II.
  • (4) The DNA primase gene of the promiscuous IncP-1 conjugative plasmid RP1, encoding two polypeptides of 118 and 80 kDa, was inserted into the transposon Tn5 in Escherichia coli.
  • (5) The HIV-infected mother was sexually promiscuous and a drug addict.
  • (6) In the U.S. and Europe, AIDS correlates to 95% with risk factors, such as about 8 years of promiscuous male homosexuality, intravenous drug use, or hemophilia.
  • (7) Both promiscuous and nonpromiscuous male homosexuals should refrain from giving blood.
  • (8) The promiscuous action of IE protein has led to the suggestion that it functions by an unusual mechanism.
  • (9) The active transport mechanism for mIBG uptake appears rather promiscuous for biogenic amines, as dopamine, tyramine and nor-adrenaline were highly efficient at blocking mIBG entry to the cell.
  • (10) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
  • (11) In a chart listing their "vulnerabilities", two of the six are identified as being involved in "online promiscuity".
  • (12) Herpetiform ulceration of the penis in a person who has had promiscuous sexual contact is not necessarily herpes progenitalis, since varicella may also involve the penis.
  • (13) Rather than homosexual intercourse (U.S.) and syringe sharing by drug abusers (Italy), most African cases seem to be transmitted by heterosexual promiscuous contacts and, to a lesser extent, by blood derivates and recycled syringes.
  • (14) At the emergency station of the Surgical Department of the University Hospital in Zurich, 90% of the group with high risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus are intravenous drug abusers and 10% are promiscuous homosexuals.
  • (15) Kaposi's sarcoma as a complication of AIDS occurred mainly in homosexuals (17 of 42 homosexuals, one of 17 drug abusers, one of five heterosexually promiscuous patients, and one of six patients who had previously received transfusions).
  • (16) During adolescence the physiological transformation zone of the cervix in the virgin undergoes limited change when compared to that of girls who are sexually promiscuous; the latter often show large areas of metaplastic squamous epithelium and the development of an atypical transformation zone.
  • (17) There were significant differences between the sexes (P less than 0.01) in drug use (alcohol, cannabis), use of condoms, promiscuity and with respect to discussion of AIDS.
  • (18) To make up the control group, 180 non-tattooed subjects from the remaining 2,264, who neither engaged in promiscuous sexual activity nor were intravenous drug abusers, were matched from household registry reports by age, sex, education, occupation, and geographic origin from Mainland China, where their parents were born.
  • (19) The CAT system illustrates the extent of variation possible for an accessory gene product which is required infrequently and which is encoded by multicopy and promiscuous vectors which can cross taxonomic boundaries.
  • (20) Fibres taken from erector spinae (Es), plantaris (Plt), diaphragm (Dia) and soleus (Sol) muscles of adult rabbits were pretyped as fast-twitch-glycolytic (FG), fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic (FOG), slow-twitch-oxidative (SO) or promiscuous (P) using a combination of histochemical staining and PAGE.

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