licentiousness

noun

Definition of licentiousnessnext
as in corruption
immoral conduct or practices harmful or offensive to society our minister often condemns the licentiousness he sees cavalierly portrayed in today's mass media

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  1. corruption
  2. immorality
  3. sin
  4. evil
  5. libertinism
Noun
  • Aliyev has maintained power through electoral fraud, widespread corruption, and the arrest and torture of political opponents and journalists.
    Paul du Quenoy, Newsweek, 31 Dec. 2024
  • Terry heads to the courthouse to report the cops and get his money back, and a plot unfolds that wraps up local politics, issues of civil forfeiture and corruption.
    Taylor Antrim, Vogue, 30 Dec. 2024
Definition of corruption
Noun
  • What captivated me about the series was its unwillingness to sugarcoat the immorality of man.
    Jason Parham, WIRED, 26 Dec. 2024
  • The history of medicine is too littered with incompetence and immorality to believe that doctors have always been worthy of this status.
    Dhruv Khullar, The New Yorker, 12 Dec. 2024
Definition of immorality
Noun
  • And when one of the most romantic gestures to happen on television this year occurs — Blackthorne (Cosmo Jarvis), who not long before had begged Mariko to live for him, steps up to be her second, to free her of that sin and deal the final blow — her gratitude and love for him is palpable.
    Maggie Fremont, Vulture, 27 Dec. 2024
  • Traversing the Holy Door is one way that the faithful can obtain indulgences, or forgiveness for sins during a Jubilee, a once-every-quarter-century tradition that dates from 1300.
    Pilar Arias, Fox News, 25 Dec. 2024
Definition of sin
Noun
  • All our sufferings must therefore be lesser evils that somehow serve to bring about a greater good.
    Anthony Gottlieb, The New Yorker, 6 Jan. 2025
  • It was seen as a temporary evil while balancing between the West and the Soviet Union.
    Dan Perry, Newsweek, 5 Jan. 2025
Definition of evil
Noun
  • Still, a story that’s equal parts an exploration of libertinism and also a scorching take on the elite remained a tempting narrative to explore.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Where his first two books take Bulgaria as backdrop and a certain kind of soft-skinned, deeply feeling libertinism as narrative vehicle, Small Rain functions as a midlife sequel, one that is quietly, unabashedly romantic.
    Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
Definition of libertinism
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