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as in lasciviousness
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Recent Examples of looseness
The ensuing attack is staged with harrowing, heart-in-mouth immediacy, shot by Jun with propulsive, handheld looseness and mud on the lens.
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Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Ball, now 10 years removed from the 35-0, national championship season with the Huskies, still plays with the looseness of the freshman who was hooping with his older brothers.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
His next goal is to eliminate the looseness.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
Inherent Vice’s looseness and laughter, its refusal of grandeur is strategic.
—Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
Idris plays the hungry newcomer without overdoing it, and Pitt brings a looseness that works for a driver stepping back into chaos.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Dec. 2025
There’s a looseness to the album.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Beckert treats the state with the same schematic looseness.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The surgery helps address the looseness skin can develop over time, as well as eye bags, Anthony Brissett, MD, a facial plastic surgeon at Houston Methodist and president of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, tells SELF.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Nov. 2025
Guy Lodge, Variety, 26 Jan. 2026
Ball, now 10 years removed from the 35-0, national championship season with the Huskies, still plays with the looseness of the freshman who was hooping with his older brothers.
—Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2026
His next goal is to eliminate the looseness.
—Bennett Durando, Denver Post, 14 Jan. 2026
Inherent Vice’s looseness and laughter, its refusal of grandeur is strategic.
—Literary Hub, 10 Dec. 2025
Idris plays the hungry newcomer without overdoing it, and Pitt brings a looseness that works for a driver stepping back into chaos.
—Okla Jones, Essence, 9 Dec. 2025
There’s a looseness to the album.
—Rebecca Alter, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
Beckert treats the state with the same schematic looseness.
—Gideon Lewis-Kraus, New Yorker, 24 Nov. 2025
The surgery helps address the looseness skin can develop over time, as well as eye bags, Anthony Brissett, MD, a facial plastic surgeon at Houston Methodist and president of the American Academy of Facial Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, tells SELF.
—Korin Miller, SELF, 14 Nov. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for looseness
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Marie is disciplined and principled, while her rebellious daughter prides herself on breaking the rules and reveling in lasciviousness.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
30 Dec. 2025
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Yet what scans as authorial laxity here is elsewhere integral to the novel’s charm.—
Hannah Gold,
New Yorker,
21 Jan. 2026
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Throughout the year, her focus is on strengthening the skin barrier, balancing, and treating specific concerns like pigmentation, acne, or laxity through a combination of clinical treatments and precise at-home routines.—
Pooja Shah,
Forbes.com,
16 Jan. 2026
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This is a distinct category from the Mile-High Clubbers, whose lewdness is much more inappropriate.—
Christopher Elliott,
Dallas Morning News,
14 Jan. 2026
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Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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According to Jackson, that is a perversion of the law.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
26 Jan. 2026
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Attacking an ally would be a perversion of everything the armed forces have been trained to do.—
Tom Nichols,
The Atlantic,
19 Jan. 2026
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Trump’s steamrolling of anything, including the Constitution, that might impede his authoritarian project has made the limpness of the Democratic opposition more conspicuous.—
Mark Leibovich,
The Atlantic,
11 Feb. 2026
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Grace’s playfully feral wantonness is funny and bewitching, but her schtick loses its luster for Jackson, who takes a job that keeps him away from home, leaving her with the baby.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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The shoot gives Henry a chance to argue with his uncle, who acknowledges that Henry’s recurrent depression is real — he’s previously been prescribed lithium — but has no patience for his nephew’s degeneracy.—
Amanda Whiting,
Vulture,
19 Jan. 2026
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This uncertainty, called mass–distance degeneracy, meant that earlier detections could not rule out heavier objects such as brown dwarfs.—
Rupendra Brahambhatt,
Interesting Engineering,
3 Jan. 2026
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Court records cited by Houston Public Media and Click2Houston show Nixon had previously been charged in 2022 with indecency with a child and indecent assault, though those charges were later dismissed.—
Christina Coulter,
PEOPLE,
27 Jan. 2026
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But as the healer grows graver, invoking notions of lust, desire, and indecency, the boys undergo a kind of exorcism.—
Natalia Winkelman,
IndieWire,
24 Jan. 2026
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 14 Feb. 2026.
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