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View definitions for libertine

libertine

adjective as in debauched

noun as in debauched person

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That view treats Middle America as a catchall for sensibility, moral uprightness and a mythical strain of virtue incorrectly believed to be absent from the supposedly libertine coasts or in large cities.

From Salon

Some conservative critics tried to paint Westheimer as a libertine because she did not disapprove of sex without marriage, was accepting of homosexuality and urged safe-sex habits.

Moore bathes the story’s sentiment in Mary’s worldview, an alluring combination of libertine and pragmatic with little desire to win friends, only influence – the type of woman Bravo’s Andy Cohen would kill to cast if she didn’t arrange for his end first.

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Trump, 77, has a libertine past, a salesman’s flair and an extraordinary instinct for insult.

But it's quite clear from the polling that most conservative evangelical Christians like the libertine, gutter-snipe Donald Trump even more than the rest of the Republican Party.

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