A dissolute person

Usage examples of libertine.

They lauded me for having with proper modesty refrained from quoting the holy fathers of the Church, whom at my age I could not be supposed to have sufficiently studied, and the ladies particularly admired me because there was no Latin in it but the Text from Horace, who, although a great libertine himself, has written very good things.

At this speech, in which my simplicity and good faith could easily be traced, she rose from her chair, and upbraided me with every insult which an outraged honest woman might hurl at the head of a bold libertine who has presumed too far.

This lady did not wish, I suppose, to be selfish, and she gave the souvenir to a libertine who, in his turn, was so generous with it that, in less than a month, I had about fifty clients.

I was nothing if not irreligious, and Venice did not contain a greater libertine.

I felt some repugnance to this course, for though the duke was a shameless libertine I did not like telling him such a disgraceful story.

They did not dare to go to the ball in a costume that would put them at the mercy of all the libertines there.

He can work in sunlight or gaslight, be a monk or a libertine, seven years old or seventy, and all the paintings will achieve the same architectual, impersonal perfection.

You think me godless and a libertine but it is to me, me, me, not the black crows of Puritans that daily infest this house and shall not infest it more that the task of improving the word of the Lord is given.

I suppose he kept well covered, bore disgusting marks of the libertine life he had led.

It has a population of potent libertines ruled by a mysterious demigod with the power to create intelligent beings and restore life to them when lost -- godlike powers indeed!

Ty has a fascination with sexual indulgence that no human libertine could even imagine.

Despite what Whitney thought, Stephen Westmoreland was apparently a libertine, a rake, a hedonist, and a notorious flirt.

Her artlessness, her vivacity, her eager curiosity, and the bashful blushes which spread over her face whenever her innocent or jesting remarks caused me to laugh, everything, in fact, convinced me that she was an angel destined to become the victim of the first libertine who would undertake to seduce her.

In an age when the Premier was a heavy drinker, the Leader of the Opposition a libertine, and the Prince of Wales a combination of the two, it was hard to know where to look for a man whose private and public characters were equally lofty.

Under the influence of champagne, Svidrigailov reminisces about his criminally libertine past, and the morally fastidious Raskolnikov cannot help being shocked.