What does licentious mean?

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Adjective
  1. Disregarding accepted rules.
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The vaguely licentious reputation of cinema also keeps women away, since they must be careful to keep their own reputations unsullied.
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.
The extravagant lifestyle and licentious ways of some of them became the subject matter of book and films.
Brutal, licentious, violent and debauched as it was, however, ancient Rome is relevant still.
He censures the licentious behavior which the picaro's freedom implies and from which the hero could abstain through his free will.

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