licentious

How To Use licentious In A Sentence

• However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew.
• In Galatians 5: 19-21 the list is headed by sexual immorality, impurity, licentiousness, and idolatry.
• Track down that effeminate foreigner who plagues our women with this new disease, and fouls the whole land with licentious lechery.
• Looking at them, you really do think of twirling lariats, and here the vaguely bordello colors, along with a kind of supercharged motion, suggest a semi-frantic, but also humorous, licentiousness.
• Tiberius distinguished his reign by great indolence, excessive cruelty, unprincipled avarice, and abandoned licentiousness.
• The example of harmonious and industrious living set by the missionaries was continually undermined by the licentious behaviour of visiting European traders.
• He used the stock characters of traditional Italian comedy, but cleaned up their characteristic ridiculous licentious behaviour in an attempt to introduce a higher moral tone.
• There are several theories about this, ranging from the dull (a goat might have been the prize at the Dionysia), to the moderately convincing (goats may once have been sacrificed to choral song, which evolved into tragedy as we know it, like in Antigone, etc.), to the highly impertinent (choral singers were young men much like goats in that they were hairy, smelly, and licentious). Small joys « paper fruit
• Coming to men with the Circean torch of licentiousness in her hand, with fair promises of freedom, she first stupefies the conscience, and brutifies the affections; and then renders her votaries the most abject slaves of guilt and crime. Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs
• The final outcome is a festive, paint-by-numbers Abstract Expressionism, a gimmick made thoroughly improvisatory and formalities made endearingly licentious, all of it as if for the first time.