libertinism
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Contrary to the crusty, chaotic libertinism of their shows, the band is disarmingly sweet and funny in person despite being duly crude.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 15, 2026
But to return to Silicon Valley: there is even a term for the school of thought that defines this synthesis of counterculture libertinism and techno-utopianism: it is called the California Ideology.
From Salon ● Aug. 3, 2019
As a flip side to his alleged libertinism, Hart was a moral scold.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 5, 2018
Still, the inevitability of that battle doesn't require embracing strategic libertinism at every turn and hardening your battles lines at every front.
From New York Times ● Sep. 29, 2018
An author who attempted a poetic drama in the eighteenth century had to conform to the rules, but his compliance with convention is worth no more to literature than the libertinism of the modern reporter.
From Personality in Literature by Rolfe Arnold Scott-James
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