The word "libertine" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is typically used to describe someone who is morally or sexually unrestrained, often indulging in pleasure-seeking activities. Example: The wealthy businessman was known for his libertine lifestyle, often seen attending wild parties and surrounded by beautiful women.
In 2000 she was a fixture in movie theatres, appearing in Épouse-moi (Marry Me), Voyous voyelles (Pretty Devils), Le Libertin (The Libertine), and Le Battement d'ailes du papillon (Happenstance).
Unable to restrain the spiky haired libertine, the hotel was forced to call in the Thai army who resorted to shooting the unhinged Billy with tranquilliser darts after he refused to leave his suite.
I'm on fire!" on Rid of Me, female pleasure in popular music is making a libertine – albeit cooler-headed – return.
Picture the scene: perhaps in the secret back room of a nightclub, reserved for VIPs, or perhaps in a humble lavatory cubicle, we find three legendary libertine pleasure-seekers, eyes wild, in the midst of a night of crazed, hang-the-consequences gratification, lines of cocaine chopped out before them.
Extolled by leading grovellers as one of the finest honours available to humankind, or half of it, the OM was founded in 1902, it says on the royal website, by the gross libertine, Edward VII, who set the number of beneficiaries, for reasons too royal to bother with, to 24 at any time.
His character's interest in misbehaviour would suggest libertine poet John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester – but he died in 1680, and this is supposed to be 1748.
If state and media conspire to keep quiet about the debauchery of politicians, might it not be easier to hide other misdeeds, such as corruption?When Mr Strauss-Kahn was up for the IMF job, Jean Quatremer, a correspondent for Libération, a French newspaper, was one of the few voices expressing concern about his libertine ways.
Not in a hooded sort of libertine way (cf, the Paris intellectuals defending Dominique Strauss-Kahn with the observation: "nobody died").
After all, it was only earlier this century that people were captivated by the tale of this audacious Austrian libertine of dubious aristocratic roots who moved to Floreana, one of the Galapagos islands, with her three lovers and proclaimed herself its empress.
In the light of his arrest, Ms Sciolino's discussion of rumours about his libertine sexual ways is a useful corrective to the "everybody knew" thesis.
He was damned even by libertine Samuel Johnson and liberty-loving William Pitt.But Burke coolly defended him on the principle that the king had abused his power.
