immoralist
Britishnoun
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Strictly speaking, while he was on the side of the angels, like all great artists, he is not a moralist; indeed, he is our first great "immoralist," a term that has supplanted the old-fashioned amoralist.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
Shaw shows himself an "immoralist" only in the sense that he attacks jejune, vicious pseudo-morals now existent.
From How to See a Play by Sir Richard Francis Burton
This radiantly-vicious child was the embodiment of the joy of life, the perfect immoralist.
From Old Calabria by Norman Douglas
Has not Nietzsche himself been counted, in his own playful phrase, an "immoralist"?
From Impressions and Comments by Havelock Ellis
It is not only written from the standpoint of a professed immoralist, but the Russian censor declared it pernicious because of its "defamation of youth," its suicidal doctrine, its depressing atmosphere.
From Unicorns by James Huneker
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