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Recent Examples of libertinage Rococo costumes are done up in garish colors; courtly gestures go hand in hand with libertinage. Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 With no new model for relationships, libertinage reigned. Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2019
Recent Examples of Synonyms for libertinage
Noun
  • This natural degradation in data characteristics means an AI that once performed well might start making errors as its environment evolves.
    Ronen Cojocaru, Forbes.com, 20 June 2025
  • Despite the degradation of its military capabilities, Iran can leverage proxies, criminal organizations abroad, and cyberattacks to hit Israeli, and possibly U.S., targets.
    Nakissa Jahanbani, The Conversation, 20 June 2025
Noun
  • The law aims to curb corruption and undue influence in federal campaigns.
    Gabe Whisnant, MSNBC Newsweek, 30 June 2025
  • The mayor has denied the allegations in the past, even after several DOJ officials resigned following the Trump administration’s move to drop the corruption charges.
    Ashleigh Fields, The Hill, 28 June 2025
Noun
  • The fact is, Sinners is not about sin in the religious sense but more about America’s most significant secular violation: its refusal to face itself.
    Sughnen Yongo, Forbes.com, 19 June 2025
  • Yet no former secretary of state has been more vehemently criticized, most notably for sins of omission and commission in countries such as Bangladesh, Cambodia, Chile and East Timor.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • In a Code world, no film should risk lowering an audience’s moral standards nor should evil or immorality be presented except as a cautionary tale.
    Betsy Golden Kellem, JSTOR Daily, 25 June 2025
  • Omari’s father, Hassan (J. Paul Nicholas), is the conservative Muslim governor of Mombasa, fond of attacking the immorality in nightclubs like the Moto Moto, where most of Goddess is set, though he’s withdrawn from his reelection campaign after an illness.
    Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 May 2025
Noun
  • This national recognition of the evils of slavery comes during a significant backlash against teaching American history, as well as an erosion of other civil rights, namely a rollback of voting rights in places that have high populations of Black voters.
    Jenny Singer, Glamour, 18 June 2025
  • The primary concern of the book was pacifism—the rejection of all violence, even to combat evil.
    Ben Woollard, JSTOR Daily, 18 June 2025
Noun
  • Still, a story that’s equal parts an exploration of libertinism and also a scorching take on the elite remained a tempting narrative to explore.
    Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Where his first two books take Bulgaria as backdrop and a certain kind of soft-skinned, deeply feeling libertinism as narrative vehicle, Small Rain functions as a midlife sequel, one that is quietly, unabashedly romantic.
    Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024

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“Libertinage.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libertinage. Accessed 5 Jul. 2025.

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