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

The Ranters mingled a little truth with much error—abused their Christian liberty—and lived licentiously, and were a scandal to religion.

From Works of John Bunyan — Volume 02 by John Bunyan

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

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

That he understood his authors cannot be doubted; but his versions will not teach others to understand them, being too licentiously paraphrastical.

From Lives of the Poets, Volume 1 by Samuel Johnson

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