libertinism
Example Sentences
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The lure of liberty – and libertinism – is strong, whatever age one may be.
From Seattle Times
But the tensions in “The Rules of the Game” — between the rich and the poor, between propriety and libertinism, between order and pandemonium — are so refined as to be almost sui generis.
From New York Times
As a flip side to his alleged libertinism, Hart was a moral scold.
From The Guardian
Our current cycle began with the baby boomers, followed by the relatively tiny Generation X. Then came millennials, who Strauss and Howe figured would reject their boomer forebears’ individualism and libertinism, becoming the “next Greatest Generation.”
From New York Times
Rather it was a world where a social revolution had ripped through American culture and radically de-moralized society, tearing down the old structures of suburban bourgeois Christian morality, replacing them with libertinism.
From New York Times
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