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The king’s licentious behavior caused great scandal among the court, as he openly pursued numerous affairs.licentious = socially unacceptable sexual behavior
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The artist’s licentious paintings were considered shocking and controversial, depicting explicit and unacceptable sexual behavior.licentious = of socially unacceptable sexual behavior
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The company’s CEO was forced to resign after allegations of his licentious behavior, including affairs with employees in the office.licentious = socially unacceptable sexual behavior
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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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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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The distinction between a well regulated army and a mob is the good order and discipline of the first, and the licentious and disorderly behavior of the latter.† (source)
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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 behaviorstandard 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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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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Lust and licentiousness, the cravings of the flesh—† (source)
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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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OK," I said, staring with licentious abandon at Theresa's photograph.† (source)
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Cedric knows all this, just as he knows his resistance was made possible, back when, by Barbara's fierce code, Pastor Long's admonitions against all such licentiousness, and the constant reminders of Cedric Gilliam's broken journey, testifying to what can happen when someone without hope of personal betterment discovers drinking and drugs.† (source)
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HENRY (A pause, during which the music fades to silence) What else but a fool to live in a Court, in a licentious mob—when I have friends, with gardens.† (source)
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Did the schools recruit for Christianity or promote Western-style licentiousness?† (source)
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