licentiousness

Example Sentences

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It denotes licentiousness and lack of control, the actions of a toddler gorging himself on chocolate until he is sick.

From Salon • Apr. 5, 2025

And at least one regulator has taken notice of chatbot licentiousness.

From Reuters • Mar. 18, 2023

“Radicalism flourished in Boston, Bristol, and Bengal, while fears of disorder and licentiousness provoked rural elites in both the Hudson Valley and the English shires,” du Rivage writes.

From The New Yorker • May 8, 2017

But it’s nonetheless a rollicking if somewhat textually thin fusion of two Restoration-era romps, by Colley Cibber and John Vanbrugh, appended with a declamatory Shakespearean wrap-up exalting love and licentiousness in their infinite varieties.

From New York Times • Dec. 25, 2012

Let me not suppose that she dares go about, Emma Woodhouse-ing me!—But upon my honour, there seems no limits to the licentiousness of that woman’s tongue!”

From "Emma" by Jane Austen