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noun

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Recent Examples of libertine
Adjective
Cutting an image that contrasted with Ali’s more libertine act, Frazier traveled with his family, including his teenage son, Marvis, an aspiring boxer himself. Vann R. Newkirk Ii, The Atlantic, 16 Sep. 2025 The more libertine Chase School encouraged originality and deep engagement with the work from its male and female pupils. Anne Halsey, JSTOR Daily, 6 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for libertine
Adjective
  • The technology included corrupt automatic shuffling machines that read cards and predicted which player had the best hand.
    Preston Fore, Fortune, 25 Oct. 2025
  • Porter’s story was viewed largely as a cautionary tale of a corrupt athlete… until this week, when the FBI dropped news of a much wider NBA betting scandal that shed light on Porter’s possible motivations.
    Eben Novy-Williams, Sportico.com, 24 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • The Gooneral’s attendees didn’t care that Malone was, from all available evidence, not a gooner at all but rather an unaffiliated, lone-wolf pervert.
    Daniel Kolitz, Harpers Magazine, 24 Oct. 2025
  • Boiled down to a thoughtless pervert by the public, Six became one.
    Alison Foreman, IndieWire, 21 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • For Capone, this high precedence of pinworm was incredibly surprising, given that the samples were over 1,000 years old and the DNA would have been highly degraded over such a long period of time.
    Laura Baisas, Popular Science, 22 Oct. 2025
  • Amazon’s own websites, Prime Video, and Alexa experienced degraded service.
    Hollie Silverman, MSNBC Newsweek, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Once Gacy is caught, the media runs with the details — all those bodies crammed in that crawlspace, some of them buried in trenches Gacy made his employees dig out — and paints his victims as runaways or degenerates who put themselves in danger.
    Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 16 Oct. 2025
  • Created by Rob Mac (formerly McElhenney, who also plays the character Mac), the Emmy-deserving series premiered 20 years ago on Aug. 4, 2005, introducing the world to a gang of morally bankrupt degenerates running the least successful bar in Philly, Paddy's Pub.
    James Mercadante, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • The Star began writing about the concerns at Warren Hills in March, detailing how for years that teachers, staff and parents have been worried that something at the school may be making teachers and staff sick.
    Laura Bauer, Kansas City Star, 23 Oct. 2025
  • Although Hahne's daughter lived close enough to remain at home, Hahne made connections with families staying in the Ronald McDonald House while their sick children received care from Children's Hospital.
    Angelika Ytuarte, jsonline.com, 23 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • The extravagant, dissolute life Prince Albert II of Monaco continues to bolster arguments of those who think that hereditary monarchies should not be allowed to exist in the 21st century.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 18 June 2025
  • Nick, a prequel to the original, offers us Carraway’s backstory as a soldier in World War I and a wanderer trying to find his way in a dissolute world.
    Danielle Teller, People.com, 10 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Next, a creamy chocolate filling makes a decadent base for light and fluffy mousse.
    Kimberly Holland, Southern Living, 25 Oct. 2025
  • This peanut butter, scotch, cream, and whole-egg cocktail is a decadent addition to home bar arsenal.
    Jeremy Repanich, Robb Report, 25 Oct. 2025

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“Libertine.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/libertine. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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