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licentiousness

[ lahy-sen-shuhs-nis ]

noun

  1. a throwing off of sexual restraint; lewd character or behavior:

    The Hays Code tried to stamp out all lust and licentiousness in American film.

  2. wanton disregard or transgression of laws, rules, or moral norms:

    Freedom entails responsibilities, or else it degenerates into licentiousness.



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

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Middle and high school students could partake, and the religious credit program would be open to all religions, as long as it “does not undeniably promote licentiousness or practices that are inconsistent with school policy.”

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Roth’s masterpiece also ruminates on the submerged grief for a deceased brother and the true freedom of anti-Puritan licentiousness.

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

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Pushing back on “woke lunacy” is valuable, he said, but it may not be worth embracing a politics that “causes Christians to adopt or excuse the disposition of cruelty and licentiousness.”

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