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libertine

/lib-er-teen, -tin/US // ˈlɪb ərˌtin, -tɪn //UK // (ˈlɪbəˌtiːn, -ˌtaɪn) //

淫荡的人,放荡不羁,淫荡者,淫乱者

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
    • : a freethinker in religious matters.
    • : a person freed from slavery in ancient Rome.
adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : free of moral, especially sexual, restraint; dissolute; licentious.
    • : freethinking in religious matters.
    • : Archaic. unrestrained; uncontrolled.

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Examples

  • Because it is this libertine, freewheeling character that you were inhabiting.

  • Prince may have pranced around like a carefree libertine onstage, but in rehearsal he was more drill sergeant than sprite.

  • In this way, bisexual is code for libertine, which is something else altogether.

  • Game of Thrones had an overly sensual libertine while House of Cards had a manipulative psychopath.

  • And they were both these libertine figures during their lives.

  • She sought to arouse what attention she could by running for governor as the most libertine of libertarians.

  • The young scholar always allows himself a number of libertine sonnets, and we avow it is particularly disagreeable to us.

  • I doubt it, sire, and I advise you to send away this libertine St. Luc, who is resolved not to amend.

  • He knew absolutely nothing about her except the story she told of childish innocence and the whims of a selfish libertine.

  • Thus, under a libertine prince, the destinies of France were at the mercy of a valet de chambre.

  • A man whos got a code of morals is moral, whether hes a libertine, a horse thief or—a minister.