libertinism

Example Sentences

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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

Between a roaring maelstrom of the coarsest libertinism, on the one hand, and an impregnable barrier of heartless puritanism on the other, her destruction was well-nigh inevitable.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.