The meaning of Libertine

noun

A person who commits adultery.

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By the late eighteenth century, new england law enforcers arrested few fornicators or adulterers, t…

noun

A married person who has sex with someone who is not their wife or husband

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Her husband was a compulsive adulterer.

proper noun

(1725–98), italian adventurer; full name giovanni jacopo casanova de seingalt. he is famous for his memoirs describing his sexual encounters and other exploits.

noun

A man notorious for seducing women.

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‘i myself used to be a casanova - i was such a womaniser’, one youth told an evaluator.

adjective

Reduced in quality or value.

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The debased traditions of sportsmanship

verb

Reduce (something) in quality or value; degrade.

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The love episodes debase the dignity of the drama

adjective

Worse than before, especially morally; less valuable or deserving less respect than before

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He believes that acts of torture reveal how debased we are., our world view has become debased. we …

adjective

Indulging in or characterized by excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.

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A debauched lifestyle

verb

Destroy or debase the moral purity of; corrupt.

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He has debauched the morals of the people and endeavoured to corrupt parliament

noun

A person given to excessive indulgence in sex, alcohol, or drugs.

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Within a few years, carbonneau, ‘a debauchee and libertine’ had frittered away her money on dubious…

noun

A debauched person (= one who drinks too much alcohol, takes drugs, shows bad sexual behaviour, etc.)

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He gave a convincing stage performance as the unpleasant young debauchee., he was condemned as a 's…

adjective

Having lost the physical, mental, or moral qualities considered normal and desirable; showing evidence of decline.

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A degenerate form of a higher civilization

noun

An immoral or corrupt person.

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Get out of my house, you degenerate!

verb

Decline or deteriorate physically, mentally, or morally.

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The quality of life had degenerated

adjective

Morally corrupt; wicked.

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He was a depraved lecher

verb

Make (someone) immoral or wicked.

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This book would deprave and corrupt young children

adjective

Morally bad or evil

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A depraved character/mind, someone who can kill a child like that must be totally depraved.

adjective

(of a person or way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures.

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Dissipated behaviour

verb

(with reference to a feeling or emotion) disappear or cause to disappear.

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The concern she'd felt for him had wholly dissipated

adjective

Spending too much time enjoying physical pleasures and harmful activities such as drinking a lot of alcohol

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He recalled his dissipated youth spent in nightclubs and bars.

adjective

(of a person or a way of life) overindulging in sensual pleasures.

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Unfortunately, his heir was feckless and dissolute

adjective

Showing a lack of good character and morals; immoral

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A dissolute life

noun

A person who believes that the pursuit of pleasure is the most important thing in life; a pleasure-seeker.

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She was living the life of a committed hedonist

noun

Someone who tries to have as much pleasure as possible, according to the belief that the most important thing in life is to enjoy yourself

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The marquis de sade was a hedonist who believed there should be no limits on human behaviour., wils…

adjective

Not conforming to accepted standards of morality.

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Unseemly and immoral behaviour

adjective

Not following accepted standards of morally right behavior or thought

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Discrimination on the basis of race is immoral., the immorality of lying

adjective

Feeling or revealing an overt sexual interest or desire.

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He gave her a lascivious wink

adjective

Feeling or expressing strong sexual desire

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Lascivious behavior

noun

A lecherous man.

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A vile drunken lecher

noun

A lecherous person

adjective

Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.

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She ignored his lecherous gaze

adjective

(esp. of men) too interested in sex

adjective

Crude and offensive in a sexual way.

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She began to gyrate to the music and sing a lewd song

adjective

(esp. of behavior or speech) sexual in an obvious and socially unacceptable way

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Lewd remarks

adjective

Showing excessive sexual drive; lustful.

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Libidinous teenagers

adjective

Having or showing strong sexual desires

adjective

Promiscuous and unprincipled in sexual matters.

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The ruler's tyrannical and licentious behaviour

adjective

(especially of a person or their behaviour) sexual in an uncontrolled and socially unacceptable way

noun

A man who behaves selfishly and irresponsibly in his sexual relationships with women.

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They are seduced by a handsome lothario who gains control of their financial affairs

noun

A man who has sex with a lot of different women

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She managed to turn a legendary lothario into a devoted husband.

adjective

Offensively displaying or intended to arouse sexual desire.

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He probed the ladies for every lubricious detail of their interactions

adjective

Having or showing too great an interest in sex, especially in an unpleasant way

adjective

Having or showing strong feelings of sexual desire.

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Lustful glances

adjective

Feeling or connected with strong sexual desire

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Lustful thoughts

noun

A wealthy man who spends his time enjoying himself, especially one who behaves irresponsibly or has many casual sexual relationships.

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He isn't the marrying type, he's just a playboy

adjective

Recklessly extravagant or wasteful in the use of resources.

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Profligate consumers of energy

noun

A licentious, dissolute person.

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He is a drunkard and a profligate

adjective

Having or characterized by many transient sexual relationships.

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Promiscuous teenagers

adjective

Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, especially the sexual activity of others.

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She'd been the subject of much prurient curiosity

noun

An implement consisting of a pole with a toothed crossbar or fine tines at the end, used especially for drawing together cut grass or smoothing loose soil or gravel.

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Moving the soil surface with a rake in winter will expose many slugs and their eggs to frost damage.

verb

Draw together with a rake or similar implement.

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I was the one who raked the leaves and cut the grass

noun

A fashionable or wealthy man of immoral or promiscuous habits.

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A merry restoration rake

noun

An unprincipled person.

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He had to present himself as more of a lovable reprobate than a spirit of corruption

adjective

Unprincipled.

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Reprobate behaviour

verb

Express or feel disapproval of.

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His neighbours reprobated his method of proceeding

noun

An attractive, passionate male seducer or lover.

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I saw her heading out the door with some rug-chested young romeo

noun

A debauched man, especially an elderly one.

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He had lived the life of a roué in the fleshpots of london and paris

noun

A person who entices someone into sexual activity.

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A serial seducer with no moral compass

noun

Someone who seduces people

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The play tells the story of a wealthy woman who seeks revenge on her heartless seducer.

noun

A person devoted to physical, especially sexual, pleasure.

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A dedicated sensualist

adjective

(of a person or their conduct) characterized by or showing a lack of shame; barefaced or brazen.

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His shameless hypocrisy

adjective

Relating to or engaging in sexual activity, especially of an illicit or extramarital nature.

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Unchaste desires

noun

A person devoted to luxury and sensual pleasure.

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The novel's italians are listless voluptuaries, its germans are dedicated and earnest, its nuns are…

adjective

Concerned with or characterized by luxury and sensual pleasure.

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A voluptuary decade when high living was in style

adjective

(of a cruel or violent action) deliberate and unprovoked.

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Sheer wanton vandalism

noun

A sexually unrestrained woman.

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She'd behaved like a wanton

verb

Play; frolic.

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They sat gazing at the white-flecked pure blue sea and the various gulls that wantoned in the wake

noun

A man who engages in numerous casual sexual affairs with women.

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A notorious womanizer who married four times

noun

A man who often has temporary sexual relationships with women or tries to get women to have sex with him

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He was a gambler, a womanizer, and a drunk., he had a reputation as a family man, but was actually …