Thesaurus / licentious
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The emotion subsequently crept into the social arena, they claimed, as we became revolted by abnormal and licentious behavior.
WHY WE LOVE TO BE GROSSED OUT - FACTS SO ROMANTICMARCO ALTAMIRANOAPRIL 22, 2021NAUTILUSSo strong were prejudices in favour of superficial morality in even that licentious age!
THE PORTSMOUTH ROAD AND ITS TRIBUTARIESCHARLES G. HARPERMary Manley died; an English authoress, of considerable reputation as a writer, but of a wanton and licentious character.
THE EVERY DAY BOOK OF HISTORY AND CHRONOLOGYJOEL MUNSELLReligion but too often forms licentious, immoral tyrants, obeyed by slaves who are obliged to conform to their views.
SUPERSTITION IN ALL AGES (1732)JEAN MESLIERHe had great advantages, but was banished by Augustus for his description of licentious love.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME IJOHN LORDThis severity was more than the licentious capital would endure.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANEYou will read Boccaccio, whose tales are intaglios carved with exquisitely licentious and Lilliputian scenes.
SINISTER STREET, VOL. 1COMPTON MACKENZIEThe government of the vessel was not less severe than its aspect was licentious.
THE HISTORY OF TASMANIA , VOLUME II (OF 2)JOHN WESTBut the barbarities of a licentious army were exceeded in atrocity by the cooler deliberations of the Norman parliament.
HISTORY OF THE RISE OF THE HUGUENOTSHENRY BAIRDDid the stage ever recover Greece or Rome from their licentious and barbarous rites and ceremonies?
THE SHEEPFOLD AND THE COMMON, VOL. II (OF 2)TIMOTHY EASTWORDS RELATED TO LICENTIOUS
- abandoned
- corrupt
- debauched
- degenerate
- depraved
- dissipated
- evil
- fast
- fast and loose
- gone bad
- high living
- in the fast lane
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lax
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- licentious
- light
- loose
- night owl
- nighthawk
- on the take
- open
- player
- profligate
- raffish
- rakish
- reprobate
- slack
- swift
- sybaritic
- unconstrained
- unprincipled
- unrestrained
- vicious
- wanton
- wayward
- wicked
- wild
- bawdy
- careless
- debauched
- depraved
- devil-may-care
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- extravagant
- flirtatious
- frivolous
- gadabout
- giddy
- incontinent
- indecent
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- light
- loose
- lustful
- profligate
- rakish
- reckless
- salacious
- self-gratifying
- self-indulgent
- sportive
- sporty
- unchaste
- wanton
- wild
- bawdy
- careless
- debauched
- depraved
- devil-may-care
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- extravagant
- flirtatious
- frivolous
- gadabout
- giddy
- incontinent
- indecent
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- light
- loose
- lustful
- profligate
- rakish
- reckless
- salacious
- self-gratifying
- self-indulgent
- sportive
- sporty
- unchaste
- wanton
- wild
- bawdy
- careless
- debauched
- depraved
- devil-may-care
- dissipated
- dissolute
- easy
- extravagant
- flirtatious
- frivolous
- gadabout
- giddy
- incontinent
- indecent
- intemperate
- lascivious
- lecherous
- lewd
- libertine
- libidinous
- licentious
- light
- loose
- lustful
- profligate
- rakish
- reckless
- salacious
- self-gratifying
- self-indulgent
- sportive
- sporty
- unchaste
- wanton
- wild
- accusable
- caught
- censurable
- censured
- chargeable
- condemned
- conscience-stricken
- contrite
- convictable
- convicted
- criminal
- culpable
- damned
- delinquent
- depraved
- doomed
- erring
- evil
- felonious
- hangdog
- in error
- in the wrong
- incriminated
- iniquitous
- judged
- liable
- licentious
- offending
- on one's head
- out of line
- proscribed
- regretful
- remorseful
- reprehensible
- responsible
- rueful
- sentenced
- sheepish
- sinful
- sorry
- wicked
- wrong
- X-rated
- abandoned
- bad
- corrupt
- debauched
- depraved
- dishonest
- dissipated
- dissolute
- fast
- graceless
- impure
- indecent
- iniquitous
- lewd
- licentious
- loose
- nefarious
- obscene
- of easy virtue
- pornographic
- profligate
- rakish
- reprobate
- saturnalian
- shameless
- sinful
- speedy
- unchaste
- unclean
- unethical
- unprincipled
- unscrupulous
- vicious
- vile
- villainous
- wicked
- wrong
- X-rated
- blue
- coarse
- crude
- dirty
- filthy
- foul
- foulmouthed
- gross
- ill-bred
- immodest
- immoral
- improper
- impure
- in bad taste
- indecorous
- indelicate
- lewd
- licentious
- malodorous
- off-color
- outrageous
- pornographic
- raunchy
- raw
- ridiculous
- rough
- salacious
- scatological
- shameless
- shocking
- smutty
- tasteless
- unbecoming
- undecorous
- unseemly
- untoward
- vile
- wicked
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