licentious

The Comstock Act is a Victorian-era law named for a vice crusader who took aim at conduct he deemed licentious.

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

The book, said New Yorker writer Janet Flanner, was “worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet.”

The late writer Janet Flanner called it “worldly, intelligent, licentious, highly indiscreet.”

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