most of the male patrons at the bar appeared to be lecherous conventioneers looking for some action
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14th century
lascivious, lewd, libidinous, licentious, lubricious (or lubricous), lustful, passionate, salacious, wanton;
celibate, chaste, decent, immaculate, modest, moral, pure, virtuous;
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian;
easy, fast, loose, promiscuous;
dissipated, dissolute, libertine;
corrupt, debased, debauched, decadent, degenerate, degraded, demoralized, depraved, dissipated, dissolute, immoral, indecent;
: having or showing an excessive or disgusting interest in sex
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