licentiously
Americanadverb
Example Sentences
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But Pertinax was made emperor against the will of the soldiers, who, accustomed to living licentiously under Commodus, could not tolerate the honest way of life to which Pertinax wished to return them.
From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli
This class of people Moses calls "giants," men who arrogate to themselves power both political and ecclesiastical, and who sin most licentiously.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas
No, it would be ambiguous, as though I had used it licentiously for “daringly,” and that would cloak the sense.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 23 (of 25) by Stevenson, Robert Louis
That he understood his authors, cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical.
From Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 1 by Johnson, Samuel
Hence, they began to live even more licentiously, and in the greatest security to despise all threats.
From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by Lenker, John Nicholas
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