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Japan and the West had different sexual mores, but Japan’s culture was not particularly licentious or permissive.

He’s a licentious cad — flip and arrogant, a little romantic but mostly skeevy, and shallow as a Champagne coupe.

Failing to return Henry Miller’s licentious “Tropic of Cancer,” borrowed two decades earlier.

In exchange, Zalmy gets to ask Jonathan, who’s about ten years older and infinitely more worldly, about sex in licentious Manhattan.

A licentious, money-drenched, morally bankrupt and intellectually vacuous ruling class, accountable to no one and free to plunder and prey on the weak like human vultures, rise to power in societies in terminal decline.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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