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

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 Maurice Henry Hewlett

Above this table was an oval barometer with a black border enlivened with gilt bands, on which the flies had so licentiously disported themselves that the gilding had become problematical.

From Eugenie Grandet by Katharine Prescott Wormeley

For instance, he appointed a guardian over a certain senator that lived licentiously, as he might have done for a child.

From Dio's Rome, Volume 4 An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During the Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, Elagabalus and Alexander Severus: and Now Presented in English Form by Herbert Baldwin Foster

For the censors had power to expel a senator, and enroll whom they judged most fit in his room, and to disgrace such young men as lived licentiously, by taking away their horses.

From Plutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and Romans by Arthur Hugh Clough