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as in lasciviousness
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Recent Examples of looseness
But perhaps no single moment better underscored the relative looseness of the camp than Corey Seager’s first at-bat of the spring.
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Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
Look at the looseness, the pre-coil of the body.
—Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
The ensuing attack is staged with harrowing, heart-in-mouth immediacy, shot by Jun with propulsive, handheld looseness and mud on the lens.
—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
Evan Grant, Dallas Morning News, 23 Feb. 2026
Look at the looseness, the pre-coil of the body.
—Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 15 Feb. 2026
The ensuing attack is staged with harrowing, heart-in-mouth immediacy, shot by Jun with propulsive, handheld looseness and mud on the lens.
—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
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
Noun
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Trying to undo a Brazilian butt lift (or BBL) by sucking it out of the body carries the risk for nerve damage, asymmetry, and skin laxity.—
Marisa Meltzer,
Vanity Fair,
23 Feb. 2026
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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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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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This garish cavalcade of perversions, which just premiered at the Berlin Film Festival, should have been shocking and transgressive; the pieces are certainly there.—
Bilge Ebiri,
Vulture,
15 Feb. 2026
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Under the many chaotic, hypocritical perversions of the Trump administration, this is now topsy-turvy, with masked ICE agents — federal law enforcement — terrorizing and killing our citizens.—
Sun Sentinel Editorial Board,
Sun Sentinel,
4 Feb. 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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One night, Earnshaw goes out for his evening’s gambling and degeneracy and returns the next morning with a new resident for the household.—
David Fear,
Rolling Stone,
11 Feb. 2026
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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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The indecency of this extraordinary line of interrogation says more about the intrusive thoughts of Carlson and Peck than about Buttigieg.—
Graeme Wood,
The Atlantic,
3 Mar. 2026
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Agencies can also pursue suspensions for public indecency.—
Talia Soglin,
Chicago Tribune,
26 Feb. 2026
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“Looseness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/looseness. Accessed 6 Mar. 2026.
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