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UK
/lˈɪbətˌiːn/
]
[ US /ˈɫɪbɝˌtin/ ]
[ US /ˈɫɪbɝˌtin/ ]
NOUN
- a dissolute person; usually a man who is morally unrestrained
ADJECTIVE
-
unrestrained by convention or morality
riotous living
Congreve draws a debauched aristocratic society
fast women
deplorably dissipated and degraded
How To Use libertine In A Sentence
- The bloodhounds, known as the seducer, the libertine, the procurer, are upon her track; she is trembling on the frightful brink of the abyss. Searchlights on Health The Science of Eugenics
- She had a smile that could light up a street full of people and was extremely lively, had a particular type of voluptuousness - a Rodin sculpture come to life. She reminded me of a libertine heroine. She was just my type.
- But the Sacred Order of Libertines doesn't really have an official position on such matters; that would be quite at odds with our libertinism. Outer Alliance Pride Day
- Unfortunately we, the English, will never be the people to teach her; because she is a chartered libertine allowed to say and do anything she likes, from demanding the head of the empress in an editorial waste-basket, to chevying Canadian schooners up and down the Alaska Seas. American Notes
- Post-moral tradition-hating libertines might do well to pause in the midst of their celebrations to consider this.
- Some libertines started claiming to have pacts with Satan, while still others said the devil himself presided over the soirées.
- Slimane has dressed a lot of rock stars and bands, including the Libertines.
- The principal character is a delinquent libertine, Don Juan, who has killed Don Gonzalo, a military commander, in an unequal duel.
- Not once but several times has the libertine Neptune scandalously seduced punts and dinghies from the respectable precincts of Brammo Bay, and having philandered with them for a while, cynically abandoned them with a bump on the mainland beach, and only once has he sent a punt in return — a poor, soiled, tar-besmirched, disorderly waif that was reported to the police and reluctantly claimed. The Confessions of a Beachcomber
- Affable, intelligent, and a talented general, the regent was also a libertine and a rake who had fallen foul of the starchy atmosphere of Versailles during Louis XIV's twilight years.