Sentence examples for licentious conduct from inspiring English sources

Indiscriminate violence and licentious conduct, they feared, threatened both mercantile profit margins and the nation's reputation overseas.

So closely was the idea of female independence linked with licentious conduct, that nothing less than cast-iron respectability in the author would have made it palatable.Wollstonecraft did not qualify.

His violent and licentious conduct provoked the Romans to insurrection; he fled Rome, and in January 1045 they elected Bishop John of Sabina to succeed him as Sylvester III.

Though Cardinal Bagnasco did not single out Mr. Berlusconi — who is in court fighting several corruption charges and accusations of having sex with a minor, and has lately become embroiled in a scandal involving prostitutes paid to attend parties at his villas — the cardinal spoke of "licentious conduct and improper relationships that damage society".

They relieved a Royalist garrison at Pontefract Castle in south Yorkshire in February 1645, but their undisciplined and licentious conduct turned many former sympathisers away from the Royalist cause.

Among shows set in Chicago, it is an outlier in its emphasis on beautiful people and licentious behavior.

Surprisingly, perhaps, our increasingly licentious behavior has not been reflected in more tolerant public attitudes toward infidelity.

Biden's licentious behavior (let's call it what it is) was never the norm and not what most women wanted or expected.

Although there is nothing in the Koran prohibiting music, many Islamists disapprove of music and dance as incitements to licentious behaviour.

His irreverence, habitual drunkenness, and licentious behaviour earned him an unsavoury reputation by the time he succeeded to his father's title in 1701.

21 1 To cite examples, whereas everywhere else wayward wives were required to pay fines, Zaleucus stopped their licentious behaviour by a cunningly devised punishment.