libertine

libertine
n
1. profligate, wanton, lecher, debauchee, debaucher, dissipator; sensualist, sybarite, voluptuary, prodigal, hedonist, epicurean; rake, rake-hell, roue, gallant; playboy, fast man, fancy man, Inf. rip, Sl. swinger, free-lover, philanderer, loose liver; adulterer, fornicator, seducer, Inf. wolf; womanizer, lady killer, flirt, bedhopper, chaser, lover; Don Juan, Lothario, Cassanova; whoremonger, whoremaster, pimp, gigolo; rapist, raper, violator, ravisher; satyr, goat, old goat, Sl. dirty old man, pervert, Sl. flasher, Sl. letch.
2. freethinker, liberal, free spirit, libertarian, latitu-dinarian; independent, individualist, humanist, ecu-menicist.
adj
3. dissolute, dissipated, rakehell, degenerate; decadent, debauched, depraved, amoral; profligate, wanton, abandoned, incontinent, intemperate, Paphic; immoral, unchaste, shameless, unvirtuous, impure, sinful; licentious, lewd, lecherous, lascivious, lubricous, Archaic. lickerish; prurient, libidinous, salacious, concupiscent, ruttish; goatish, hircine, satyric, priapic, randy, Sl. horny; carnal, sensual, animal, bestial, brutish.
4. freethinking, libertarian, latitudinarian, liberal, liberal-minded, independent; catholic, humanistic, ecumenical, unprovincial, unparochial; open-minded, broad-minded, broad, large-minded, tolerant; unbig-oted, unprejudiced, unbiased

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