libertinage

It was during that supper my sister taught me all I still did not know about libertinage.

She was already announcing signs of imagination, debauchery, and of libertinage.

Nonetheless, a rich national tradition of libertinage has lately been confronted with something of a dilemma.

"What she probably sensed was the lingering aura of my life of libertinage and debauchery."

At one point they wanted to abolish freedom of the press, at another they seemed to encourage libertinage.

The Pasha's titular harem, for example, reprised themes of sexual libertinage.

Oh, incredible refinement of libertinage!

What effortlessness, what ease, what detachment in libertinage!

Le Libertinage (1924)

He was, as a result of his writings, associated, in the minds of some, with a modern current of libertinage érudit.

My one criticism is that it contains an excess of delicacy; you know, of course, that I don't greatly favor mixing fine feelings with libertinage.

There is a posthumous work of his entitled "La foy victorieuse de l'infidélite et du libertinage".

During the first few months of their marriage, the couple appeared devoted to each other, but the duke went back to the life of 'libertinage' he had led before his marriage.

Then Bardot appeared in 'And God Created Woman', transforming localised libertinage into a worldwide reputation for illicit pleasures.

Ms. Gray makes it clear that some of this behavior was fairly standard for the decadent French aristocracy of the time, which is why the word libertinage was in common use.

He left the classroom in triumph, and as impotence always provokes that kind of mood called a teasing one in the idiom of libertinage, his inspections were astonishingly severe.

In a speech which he delivered at his appointment, he proposed that matrimony was to be mandatory to all citizens, in order to put an end to the libertinage then already widespread.

The Duc undertook an encomium of libertinage, and proved that it was natural, and that the more numerous were its extravagances, the better they served the creator of us all.

That was the single lubricious action he seemed inclined to permit himself, and until then he had exposed nothing which might have led me to suppose libertinage had something to do with the scene.

Few mortals had been as free in their behavior or as debauches as the President; but, entirely jaded, absolutely besotted, all that remained to him was the depravation and lewd profligacy of libertinage.

In peacetime they lived in a sort of wild, outrageous libertinage in small enclaves, generally in the most remote and inhospitable places in all Britain, where the dragons could be given at least some freedom.

The 120 Days of Sodom, or the School of Licentiousness (Les 120 journées de Sodome, ou l'École du libertinage, novel, 1785, pub.

Many radical movements since 1789 have oscillated uncomfortably between a passing sexual libertinage and a more enduring prudery, the prudery accompanied by all manner of attacks on the private and public impropriety of their opponents.

The President de Curval, sixty; a tall, thin, lank man, with sunken, dead eyes, an unhealthy mouth, the walking image of low license and libertinage, frightfully dirty about his body and attaching voluptuousness thereto.