licentious

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1. licentious - Adjective

2. licentious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive; abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious press.

Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral; dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a licentious life.

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Everyone in those days expected that art students were wild, licentious characters. We didn't know how to be, but we sure were anxious to learn. Norman Rockwell

My English text is chaste, and all licentious passages are left in the decent obscurity of a learned language. Edward Gibbon

There is no better way to know death than to link it with some licentious image. Georges Bataille

It is a strange feeling - no hopelessness is in it, no despair. Content - that is it; and irresponsibility; but without licentious inclination. I speak now of my profoundest sense of being, not of an incidental feeling. Herman Melville

Men have no greater enemy than excessive prosperity, for it destroys their mastery over themselves and makes them licentious and vicious, with a hankering after novelties destructive of their own well-being. Francesco Sansovino

coarse and licentious men Source: Internet

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