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How to use licentious in a sentence

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These plays, designed to combat licentious carnival entertainments, were spoken but had some music.
It also contains a number of quibbles or jeux de mots, and a still greater number of facetiae, idle and licentious stories.
He censures the licentious behavior which the picaro's freedom implies and from which the hero could abstain through his free will.
All the accused men were well known for their licentious behaviour and for this reason possibly became easy targets for incrimination.
This process is naturally the opposite of that employed by the forgetful Don Juan, the master figure of our sexually licentious age.
Brutal, licentious, violent and debauched as it was, however, ancient Rome is relevant still.
That does not mean there should be no sanction for misbehaviour or licentious behaviour.
Track down that effeminate foreigner who plagues our women with this new disease, and fouls the whole land with licentious lechery.
However, the libidinous cad may find many pleasures in the licentious glance along the pew.
The vaguely licentious reputation of cinema also keeps women away, since they must be careful to keep their own reputations unsullied.
With a troubled face, Flora, goddess of Spring and licentious revels, stealthily hands the flowers on to Venus.
The extravagant lifestyle and licentious ways of some of them became the subject matter of book and films.
They fell upon the king's soldiers because of the licentious conduct they had been allowed under Herod's government.
Critics such as La Font de Saint-Yenne and Diderot began to label the work of many of their contemporaries shallow, frivolous, and licentious.
It is a party rhythm, and it can even be said that sometimes this rhythm is rather licentious or even debauched.
For the Victorians, the dame represented a rare opportunity to manhandle a lady on stage, for comic and licentious effect.
Citizens believed that these swarthy people, with their thieving transactions and licentious sexuality, had no morals.
He also accuses Isabel of repeatedly trying to seduce him, although he supposedly refused to succumb to her licentious ways.
The example of harmonious and industrious living set by the missionaries was continually undermined by the licentious behaviour of visiting European traders.
World famous, he is also a great womanizer, acknowledged as such by his colleagues, wife, and friends who themselves enjoy an entertainingly licentious social and sexual life.
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Examples from Classical Literature
His manners were overbearingly insolent, his language licentious, and his person slovenly even to a degree that was disgusting.
If Mars be configurated with Venus only men are of a licentious temperament.
When these are unusually licentious, sedition is interpreted liberally and laxly.
Query, Is this not encouraging the Inhabitants in their licentious and riotous disposition?
The government of the vessel was not less severe than its aspect was licentious.
His manichaean friends urged him to take this step, which was rendered easier by the licentious lives of the students at Carthage.
Not content with singing licentious songs in the choir, they sat and played at dice on the altar, at the side of the officiator.
Or would you ascertain whether he is licentious by putting your wife or daughter into his hands?
I refrained from expressing my abhorrence of that licentious doctrine because of my curiosity.
The verses of the troubadours and the trouvres were very licentious.
These Merovingian kings were as greedy and licentious as they were cruel.
Heretical worship was of a most licentious as well as disgusting kind.
Cicero was of low birth, and Metellus was the son of a licentious woman.
She makes no secret of them, and has, in fact, elaborated a complete system of licentious behaviour.
Yezd, who succeeded his father, was a very licentious and irreligious man.
The drink had now begun to take noticeable effect upon most of them, with the result that they were beginning to give themselves up to utter and licentious abandon.
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