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  • n  the quality of being lewd and lascivious
  • n  dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure

  • How is that different from the conservative Evangelicals who say New York was being punished for its licentiousness?" Moyers, who seems to be spending the rest of his life over .
  • Americans who deplore crime and disorder might consider the case of Andy Warhol, who for years has celebrated every form of licentiousness.
  • Bill Clintonthe exemplar of baby-boom licentiousness and moral relativismwas brought low by a thong-flashing Gomorrean hussy; in the subsequent public scourging, his .
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  • George Bernard Shaw in Napa Valley Register
    Shaw said he wrote the play "to draw attention to the truth that prostitution is caused, not by female depravity and male licentiousness, but simply by underpaying, undervaluing, and overworking women so shamefully that the poorest of them are...
  • Thomas Jefferson in Thaindian.com (blog)
    2.Thomas Jefferson said in 1805: "During this course of administration, and in order to disturb it, the artillery of the press has been leveled against us, charged with whatsoever its licentiousness could devise or dare. These abuses of an...
  • George Washington in Mt. Vernon-Lisbon Sun
    George Washington said, "Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness."

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