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libertine
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synonyms: disipated, rake, Lothario, licentious ???
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Definition:{n} a man who behaves without moral principles; a freethinker{adj} describes one with disregard for sexual morals
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He flew her in a private jet to Bermuda and installed her in a suite. On their first night together she broke out in a rash just as the libertine was opening her bedroom door.
“Filth!” Ignatius shouted,
John Kennedy Toole. A Confederacy of Dunces (1980)
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Do not, as some ungracious pastors do,
Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven;
Whilst, like a puff'd and reckless libertine,
Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads
And recks not his own read.
William Shakespeare. Hamlet (1600)
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Yet perhaps the virtue of those reverend sages was too strict for the corrupt and libertine manners of a court: and we often find by experience, that young men are too opinionated and volatile to be guided by the sober dictates of their seniors.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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Oh, ye frozen heavens! look down here. Ye did beget this luckless child, and have abandoned him, ye creative libertines.
Herman Melville. Moby Dick (1851)
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Compared to a submarine's reactor spaces, a hospital operating room was a den of libertines.
Tom Clancy. The Hunt for Red October, pp.112-3 (1984)
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while upon a succession of balconies a succession of libertines, sparkling glass in hand,
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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