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Meanings of licentiousness in English
Portuguese
devassidão Catalan
llibertinatge Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.
Portuguese
licenciosidade Synonyms
Examples for "wantonness"
Examples for "wantonness"
1
He was as infamous in wantonness as Frode was illustrious in war.
2
Curiosity and wantonness made me escape with him; you know the rest.
3
With the last gleam of day it left the stage to wantonness.
4
Partly for wantonness, partly to vent his spleen upon some living creature.
5
Think of my wantonness-mywickedness-notof my poor, tormented attempts at happiness.
Usage of licentiousness in English
1
The slave girl is reared in an atmosphere of licentiousness and fear.
2
The reign of Charles II was pre-eminently distinguished for licentiousness and debauchery.
3
By relaxing all discipline he introduced disorder and licentiousness thro the colony.
4
But surely it should rather be called a preventive of English licentiousness.
5
Never was such licentiousness of description united to such delicacy of colouring.
6
Gentlemen, I am decidedly opposed to making licentiousness a means of profit.
7
It was an era of extravagance, bribery, corruption, oppression, licentiousness and lawlessness.
8
He had just come back, and complained bitterly of all the licentiousness.
9
Despotism, or unbounded licentiousness, can endear no nation to any honest man.
10
Viewing the matter from this stand-point, what wonder that licentiousness is rife!
11
That under pretence of retirement and devotion they lived in idleness and licentiousness:
12
Not an anecdote survives that in any way suggests personal licentiousness.
13
The sin of licentiousness prevails also to an alarming degree in many quarters.
14
Poles and Cossacks, by their insolent licentiousness, injure him in the popular opinion.
15
All the lighter kinds of literature were deeply tainted by the prevailing licentiousness.
16
BEERMANN.... Against immorality in the lower strata where it easily degenerates into licentiousness.
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Translations for licentiousness
Portuguese
Catalan
Licentiousness through the time
Licentiousness across language varieties
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