Licentious \Li*cen"tious\ (-sh[u^]s), a. [L. licentiosus: cf. F.
licencieux. See License.]
1. Characterized by license; passing due bounds; excessive;
abusive of freedom; wantonly offensive; as, a licentious
press.
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A wit that no licentious pertness knows. --Savage.
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2. Unrestrained by law or morality; lawless; immoral;
dissolute; lewd; lascivious; as, a licentious man; a
licentious life. "Licentious wickedness." --Shak.
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Syn: Unrestrained; uncurbed; uncontrolled; unruly; riotous;
ungovernable; wanton; profligate; dissolute; lax; loose;
sensual; impure; unchaste; lascivious; immoral.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
licentious
adj : lacking moral discipline; especially sexually unrestrained;
"coarse and licentious men"
WordNet (r) 2.0
91 Moby Thesaurus words for "licentious":
abandoned, amoral, animal, carnal, corrupt, debauched, depraved,
disobedient, dissipated, dissolute, fast, fleshly, free,
free-living, gallant, gay, go-go, headstrong, heady, high-living,
hubristic, immoderate, immoral, incontinent, indulgent,
insubordinate, intemperate, irrepressible, irresponsible,
lascivious, lawless, lax, lecherous, lewd, libertine, libidinous,
loose, lustful, mutinous, nonrestrictive, out of control,
out of hand, oversexed, permissive, presuming, presumptuous,
profligate, rakehell, rakehellish, rakehelly, rakish, rampant,
randy, reinless, relaxed, reprobate, riotous, salacious, satyric,
scabrous, self-willed, sensual, unaccountable, unbridled,
unchecked, uncoerced, uncompelled, unconstrained, uncontrolled,
uncurbed, undisciplined, unforced, ungoverned, uninhibited,
unmastered, unmeasured, unmoral, unmuzzled, unprincipled, unreined,
unrepressed, unreserved, unrestrained, unrestrictive, unruly,
unsubdued, unsuppressed, wanton, wild, wildcat, willful
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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