Definitions for licentious

licentious li·cen·tious

Spelling: [lahy-sen-shuh s]
IPA: /laɪˈsɛn ʃəs/

Licentious is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 757 anagrams from letters in licentious (ceiilnostu).

Definitions for licentious

adjective

  1. sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd.
  2. unrestrained by law or general morality; lawless; immoral.
  3. going beyond customary or proper bounds or limits; disregarding rules.

Origin of licentious

First recorded in 1525-35, licentious is from the Latin word licentiōsus unrestrained. See license, -ous

Examples for licentious

For Shaftel this kind of licentious behavior amounts to “conspicuous consumption disguised as urbanity.”

Heretical worship was of a most licentious as well as disgusting kind.

Or would you ascertain whether he is licentious by putting your wife or daughter into his hands?

He also accuses Isabel of repeatedly trying to seduce him, although he supposedly refused to succumb to her licentious ways.

Cicero was of low birth, and Metellus was the son of a licentious woman.

And shame on Tiger, for another kind of promiscuity—the licentious use of his father.

“licentious and immoral practices seem to get great head amongst young people,” he preached.

Query, Is this not encouraging the Inhabitants in their licentious and riotous disposition?

The government of the vessel was not less severe than its aspect was licentious.

I refrained from expressing my abhorrence of that licentious doctrine because of my curiosity.

Word Value for licentious
Scrable

12

Words with friends

16

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