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Adjective(1) lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained(2) lacking moral discipline(3) immoral(4) uncontrolled

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(1) Civic fathers, fearing for the virtue of their daughters and the sobriety of their sons, lamented the corrupting presence of the u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510drunken and licentious soldieryu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(2) His popularity was apparent early at Eton, where he was given the nickname Buck, which, as the author points out, was a common term for u251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu2510sexually licentious Londonersu251cu00f6u251cu00e7u251cu00fb.(3) He used the stock characters of traditional Italian comedy, but cleaned up their characteristic ridiculous licentious behaviour in an attempt to introduce a higher moral tone.(4) But the worshippers and admirers of these gods delight in imitating their scandalous iniquities, and are nowise concerned that the republic be less depraved and licentious .(5) And they are very far from any thought that their licentious groupings would provide an avenue for the emergence of a patriarch with a retinue of teen-wives.(6) All the accused men were well known for their licentious behaviour and for this reason possibly became easy targets for incrimination.(7) The example of harmonious and industrious living set by the missionaries was continually undermined by the licentious behaviour of visiting European traders.(8) Martin Luther, in guiding the 16 th-century church back to the apostolic teaching of salvation by grace through faith active in love, was aware that the gospel of grace is so freeing that it might become an excuse for licentious behavior.(9) That does not mean there should be no sanction for misbehaviour or licentious behaviour.(10) This process is naturally the opposite of that employed by the forgetful Don Juan, the master figure of our sexually licentious age.(11) Brutal, licentious , violent and debauched as it was, however, ancient Rome is relevant still.(12) The poet Philip Larkin noted that sexual intercourse began in 1963, but a long suppressed study has shown that Britain indulged in licentious behaviour long before the dawn of the permissive society, writes Tom Baird.(13) In Paris it was welcomed by a public with a strong appetite for the irreverent and licentious in literature, and probably for subversive ideas of any kind in philosophy and theology.(14) Take the measure of any season - none of them turns up more coconut oil, string bikinis and licentious behavior than summer.(15) The extravagant lifestyle and licentious ways of some of them became the subject matter of book and films.(16) However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew.
Synonyms
Adjective
1. dissolute
2. dissipated
4. degenerate
5. immoral
6. naughty
7. wanton
8. decadent
9. depraved
10. sinful
11. corrupt
12. lustful
13. lecherous
14. lascivious
15. libidinous
16. prurient
17. lubricious
18. lewd
19. promiscuous
20. lickerish


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