licentious in English
World famous, he is also a great womanizer, acknowledged as such by his colleagues, wife, and friends who themselves enjoy an entertainingly licentious social and sexual life.
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.
Use "licentious" in a sentence
1. Many of them indulged in luxurious and licentious revelries.
2. The woman is very licentious.
3. Feasting, dancing, and music set the mood for licentious behavior.
4. This kind of freedom is licentious.
5. She felt uncomfortable for his licentious act.
6. The lips were more sensuous than the original, almost licentious.
7. The licentious monarch helped bring about his country's downfall.
8. Many Chinese, who disapprove of its sexual movements, consider it unruly and licentious.
9. Doubtless, there were literal drunkards in Israel, since Samaria was the scene of licentious pagan worship.
10. It's because I'm going to have a licentious date with Miss Lai Xiang now!
11. Introduce beautiful women and licentious sounds in order to befuddle him.
12. 9 The works of Shakespeare, deemed licentious by the seminary staff and students, enchanted her.
13. As for the notion of canvassing his licentious friends, it was out of the question.
14. 22 As for the notion of canvassing his licentious friends, it was out of the question.
15. Though great artists have been licentious, licence does not necessarily result in great art.
16. Can be rated as the most anomalous the most licentious the whole world bestial acts!
17. Though I myself led a licentious life, the licentiousness of the women nevertheless shocked me.
18. Many will follow their licentious and because of them the way of truth will be reviled.
19. If an army on the march can be lured to break rank to pursue licentious, immoral conduct, this can cause disorder.
20. He was remembered in the Goryeosa for his licentious lifestyle, particularly his habit of abducting, raping, and killing women.
21. 3 Israel was a small nation surrounded by unfriendly neighbors who engaged in licentious ceremonies in the worship of idol gods.
22. Because they allowed their hearts to become ‘desirous of injurious things’ —whether the idolatry or the licentious practices that accompanied it.
23. Carnal adjective sexual, animal, sexy (informal), fleshly, erotic, sensual, randy (informal, chiefly Brit.), steamy (informal), raunchy (slang), sensuous, voluptuous, lewd, wanton, amorous, salacious, prurient, impure, lascivious, lustful, lecherous, libidinous, licentious, unchaste Their passion became inflamed and their Carnal desires ran wild.
24. Evidently the danger to be guarded against was not so much a sinful act as a sinful utterance, and the expression “to make pretexts or excuses” may possibly refer to the Casuistries by which some of the laxer Jews excused their participation in heathen rites or licentious banquets
25. Referring to the Greek word here translated “have a good time,” one expositor says that it refers to the dances that occurred at pagan festivals and adds: “Many of these dances, as is well known, were directly designed to provoke the most licentious passions.”
26. Carter argues that the description of Aboriginal women as lewd and licentious was used by government officials and others to deflect criticism from their own behaviour and that of the North West Mounted Police when dealing with these women.
27. Encourages it.6 The Aretinian legacy, needless to say, did little to diminish already flourishing stereotypes of the non-Anglo Other as licentious and sexually depraved, which English authors were quick to anticipate in-if not inevitably to endorse for-their audiences.7 Kim Hall views representations of race in early modern En-