Sample Sentences for
licentious
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    We have all manner of licentious people in the village!  (source)
    licentious = exhibiting unacceptable sexual behavior
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    "In fact," he continued as with a huge bang Southend split itself into six equal segments which danced and spun giddily round each other in lewd and licentious formations, "there is something altogether very strange going on."  (source)
    licentious = inappropriately sexual
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    And it is the more to be lamented, because there is reason to suppose as my dear Charlotte informs me, that this licentiousness of behaviour in your daughter has proceeded from a faulty degree of indulgence; though, at the same time, for the consolation of yourself and Mrs. Bennet, I am inclined to think that her own disposition must be naturally bad, or she could not be guilty of such an enormity, at so early an age.  (source)
    licentiousness = degree of unacceptable sexual behavior
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    Nately's father was a sober, philosophical and responsible man; this old man was fickle and licentious.  (source)
    licentious = lacking in moral restraint (especially with regard to sexual behavior)
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    Lust and licentiousness, the cravings of the flesh—†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
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    But Pertinax was created emperor against the wishes of the soldiers, who, being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not endure the honest life to which Pertinax wished to reduce them; thus, having given cause for hatred, to which hatred there was added contempt for his old age, he was overthrown at the very beginning of his administration.†  (source)
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    His grandmother Harriet had a few gospel records, which she only played when the world discovered a new mean way to work on her, and Elwood wasn't allowed to listen to the Motown groups or popular songs like that on account of their licentious nature.†  (source)
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    Did the schools recruit for Christianity or promote Western-style licentiousness?†  (source)
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    I should not dispute it if dramatic poets really were what English public opinion generally assumes them to be during their lifetime: that is, a licentiously irregular group to be kept in order in a rough and ready way by a magistrate who will stand no nonsense from them.†  (source)
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    The pegs had been neatly placed in holes bored in the granite, which reminded him of the Prince of Wales, and he dreamed that night of wonderfully perfumed women with rosy flesh and intoxicated, licentious stares.†  (source)
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    Herr Settembrini was afraid of the "absolute Spirit," wanted to restrict "spirit" to democratic progress, and nothing else—was horrified by militant Naphta's religious licentiousness, which made a jumble of God and the Devil, the holy and the criminal, genius and illness, which recognized no values, no judgments of reason, no will.†  (source)
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    It's really a bar at night, with lots of noise and drinking and smoking, the kind of place he's been warned against visiting his whole life-by Bishop and his mother-a licentious spot where anything might happen and the last place a holy person, a special person of God, ought to be.†  (source)
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    It was a peculiar combination of old-maidishness and licentiousness that made Cutter seem so despicable.†  (source)
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