Sentence:  While I dressed—for Stroeve wished me to go at once with him to the hospital—he told me that he had arranged for his wife to have a private room, so that she might at least be spared the sordid <WSD>promiscuity</WSD> of a ward. 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  State of being mixed, composed of diverse elements, unsystematic; heterogeneity.