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looseness
noun as in corruption
noun as in evil
Strong matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- heinousness
- hurt
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- perversity
- ruin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrongdoing
Weak match
noun as in immorality
noun as in improbity
noun as in irregularity
noun as in libertinism
Weak matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
noun as in license
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak match
noun as in licentiousness
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in peccancy
Weak matches
- affliction
- baseness
- blow
- calamity
- catastrophe
- corruption
- crime
- criminality
- curse
- debauchery
- depravity
- devilry
- diabolism
- harm
- hatred
- heinousness
- hurt
- ill
- impiety
- indecency
- infamy
- iniquity
- injury
- knavery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- malevolence
- malignity
- meanness
- mischief
- misery
- misfortune
- obscenity
- outrage
- pain
- perversity
- ruin
- sin
- sinfulness
- sorrow
- suffering
- turpitude
- vice
- viciousness
- vileness
- villainy
- wickedness
- woe
- wrong
- wrongdoing
noun as in profligacy
Strongest match
Strong matches
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
Weak matches
noun as in promiscuity
Strong match
Weak match
noun as in vice
Example Sentences
The rapper displayed confident looseness on Saturday that only a veteran can truly inhabit on a stage in front of thousands of festivalgoers.
She still writes on her own - claiming that collaborators would find her methods “insufferable” - but approached recording sessions with a newfound looseness.
The performances are utterly different — Colman’s every facial muscle is tightly controlled; Buckley is all looseness — and yet there’s a connection between them; you can, somehow, imagine these women as friends.
Robertson looked and sounded furious as he tore into this team's looseness and inability to stay in the fight.
There’s also a looseness to “Life of Brian” that “The Book of Clarence” sometimes apes, an episodic nature that in this case feels more like unfocused narrative structure.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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