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

I need not tell you that to live licentiously and to do evil is base and hazardous and hated of both gods and men.

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

No, it would be ambiguous, as though I had used it licentiously for 'daringly,' and that would cloak the sense.

From Letters of Robert Louis Stevenson — Volume 1 by Robert Louis Stevenson

Orgon: here licentiously used for the plural, "organs" or "orgons," corresponding to the plural verb "gon" in the next line.

From The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems by D. Laing Purves

This class of people Moses calls "giants," men who arrogate to themselves power both political and ecclesiastical, and who sin most licentiously.

From Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II Luther on Sin and the Flood by John Nicholas Lenker

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