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licentiously

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li·cen·tious  (l-snshs)
adj.
1. Lacking moral discipline or ignoring legal restraint, especially in sexual conduct.
2. Having no regard for accepted rules or standards.
[Latin licentisus, from licentia, freedom, license; see license.]
li·centious·ly adv.
li·centious·ness n.
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Adv.1.licentiously - in a licentious and promiscuous manner; "this young girl has to share a room with her mother who lives promiscuously"
promiscuously, wantonly
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But Pertinax was created emperor against the wishes of the soldiers, who, being accustomed to live licentiously under Commodus, could not endure the honest life to which Pertinax wished to reduce them; thus, having given cause for hatred, to which hatred there was added contempt for his old age, he was overthrown at the very beginning of his administration.
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