licentiously

American  

[lahy-sen-shuhs-lee] / laɪˈsɛn ʃəs li /

adverb

1. in a way or to a degree that is licentious, especially with regard to sexual or moral norms.

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licentiously

But Pertinax was made emperor against the will of the soldiers, who, accustomed to living licentiously under Commodus, could not tolerate the honest way of life to which Pertinax wished to return them.

From "The Prince" by Niccolò Machiavelli

All these terms—'principle,' 'doctrine,' 'system,' 'theory,' 'hypothesis'—are used nearly always most licentiously, and as arbitrarily as a Newmarket jockey selects the colors for his riding-dress.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas

This must be a sort of easy style, and yet not utterly without rules, so that it may seem to range at freedom, not to wander about licentiously.

From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Cicero, Marcus Tullius

So I mused thus licentiously until one clear conviction possessed me: that I would no longer pretend to the social superiority of one Colonel Marmaduke Ruggles.

From Ruggles of Red Gap by Wilson, Harry Leon

What punctilious loyalty to the little observances of literature, of wall-decoration, call it, in the most licentiously minded of them!

From Earthwork out of Tuscany Being Impressions and Translations of Maurice Hewlett by Hewlett, Maurice Henry