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licentiously
adverb
In a licentious manner, rowdily, overwhelmed by passion and without control of appetites (especially sexual appetites).
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Finding himself thinking licentiously of another female hours after his inaugural orgy with Hannah, he excuses himself with the poetic thought "When Hannah has lit your lamp for you, it's natural to see other women in its rays".
At the beginning of the second act, we see Josephine dancing licentiously for a group of soldiers.
He also accused Israel of "licentiously attacking the worshippers in its mosques and those defending its honor and sanctity" and "attempting to Judaize holy Jerusalem and its Christian and Islamic holy places".
An ethics columnist who preaches moderation but acts licentiously is a hypocrite, too.
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