licentiousness

noun

Definition of licentiousnessnext
as in corruption
immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society our minister often condemns the licentiousness he sees cavalierly portrayed in today's mass media

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  1. corruption
  2. immorality
  3. sin
  4. evil
  5. libertinism
Noun
  • He was arrested in 1973 on corruption charges, and his 52-day long trial cost 1.25 million British pounds.
    Elizabeth Stamp, Architectural Digest, 25 Dec. 2024
  • Adams, 64, was indicted in September on federal corruption charges, pleaded not guilty and denied any wrongdoing.
    Mark Crudele, ABC News, 21 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of immorality
Noun
  • The sins of the Franks and their rulers had made the land fertile for Wiggo and his friends.
    Matthew Gabriele, Smithsonian Magazine, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Perhaps the biggest sin of them all, however, is just how absolutely dull and yawn-inducing Dune: Prophecy is.
    Erik Kain, Forbes, 10 Dec. 2024
Definition of sin
Noun
  • The show felt joyously anarchic and kind of evil at the same time.
    Alex Greenberger, ARTnews.com, 19 Dec. 2024
  • As the film’s wealthy Pennsylvania industrialist Harrison Lee Van Buren, Pearce creates a psychologically penetrating portrait of a man who is by turns generous and predatory, inquisitive and closed off, someone who ultimately reveals himself to be capable of true evil.
    Mark Olsen, Los Angeles Times, 19 Dec. 2024
Definition of evil
Noun
  • Still, a story that’s equal parts an exploration of libertinism and also a scorching take on the elite remained a tempting narrative to explore.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Where his first two books take Bulgaria as backdrop and a certain kind of soft-skinned, deeply feeling libertinism as narrative vehicle, Small Rain functions as a midlife sequel, one that is quietly, unabashedly romantic.
    Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
Definition of libertinism
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