(n.) A manumitted slave; a freedman; also, the son of a freedman.
(n.) One of a sect of Anabaptists, in the fifteenth and early part of the sixteenth century, who rejected many of the customs and decencies of life, and advocated a community of goods and of women.
(n.) One free from restraint; one who acts according to his impulses and desires; now, specifically, one who gives rein to lust; a rake; a debauchee.
(n.) A defamatory name for a freethinker.
(n.) Free from restraint; uncontrolled.
(n.) Dissolute; licentious; profligate; loose in morals; as, libertine principles or manners.
Example Sentences:
(1) Since his arrest, a French taboo has been broken and Strauss-Kahn's behaviour towards women, deemed "libertine" by his friends, has been raked over.
(2) The concrete poet and lyricist Torquato Neto saw Tropicália as "not liberal but libertine".
(3) Fresh from positive reviews of their comeback album, the Libertines score their fourth top 40 today with Anthems for Doomed Youth at No 3, while former chart-topper Jess Glynne’s I Cry When I Laugh slides two places to No 4.
(4) In his late 20s, when The Mighty Boosh became successful, he did start drinking and drugging, hanging out with Amy Winehouse and the Libertines.
(5) But I can't help speculating about his fascination with the ruthless libertine, especially since the cast of Amour includes an operatic baritone who was once a notable Don Giovanni: William Shimell plays Huppert's husband, a philandering musician.
(6) Meanwhile, Corbyn chants were taking place at other concerts around the country – at a Mac DeMarco gig as well as at the Wirral Live music festival at the Tranmere Rovers’ ground, where Corbyn gave a speech before the Libertines headlined.
(7) "He turned up to a Dirty Pretty Things show with loads of free clothes," recalls Carl Barât, Doherty's sometime bandmate, referring to his post-Libertines project.
(8) By 1963, media allegations that Profumo had fallen into a honey trap in which Keeler was manipulated by her osteopath friend Stephen Ward (damned by hacks as a reckless libertine with MI5 and Kremlin contacts) into luring her Tory lover to blab nuclear secrets that were passed on to the Kremlin became so nearly ubiquitous that the minister felt compelled to make a statement to the House.
(9) The public wasn't informed of the slightly libertine side of his personal life."
(10) Sex allegations In last Sunday's Observer Henry Porter compared him to the 18th-century libertine, John Wilkes.
(11) "Because we aren't a dance band, because we don't sound like the Libertines.
(12) McLaren's provocative influence can be detected in everything from Damien Hirst's art and contrary bands such as the Libertines and Oasis to the mainstream punk clothes on sale in Top Shop.
(13) Carl Barat, The French House , Soho, London Carl Barat, former Libertine, in The French House pub in Soho, London.
(14) The Georgians were not all freewheeling libertines or enlightened sceptics.
(15) While it is absolutely the responsibility of the adult to ensure they do not abuse children, this is irrelevant in the cases under discussion because the victims were not carefree libertines inspired by Erica Jong's notion of the zipless fuck .
Philanderer
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs about women; a male flirt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Resorting to a series of Ted the swordsman scenes which may merely be the lurid fantasies of the heroine, director Christine Jeffs never makes it clear whether Hughes was a rampaging philanderer whose sexual conquests and general obliviousness to Plath's mounting depression led to her demise, or a man driven into other women's arms by his wife's chronic melancholy - perhaps the most time-honoured excuse of the inveterate tomcat - or both.
(2) Serious serial philanderers – the Alan Clark kind of politicians – handle such crises more adroitly than the amateurs.
(3) In an affidavit, he stated: "The portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect."
(4) But the courts appear to be drawing the curtains on the bedroom antics of high-profile philanderers by denying the women their 15 minutes of fame, or infamy.
(5) He may not care for effete toffs, but he got on like a house on fire with the posh MP, diarist and serial philanderer Alan Clark.
(6) Druggist, obstetrician, builder, lecturer, poet and philanderer, his career was a chequered and eventful one.
(7) In particular, the portrait depicts me in a manner that suggests that I am a philanderer, a womaniser and one with no respect.
(8) Shock value EastEnders: Michelle's teenage pregnancy, 1985 Viewers were kept guessing about the father of Michelle Fowler's child – revealed as Den Watts Emmerdale: plane crash, 1993 The Yorkshire soap began a trend for "stunt" disaster storylines Brookside: lesbian kiss, 1993 UK TV's first lesbian kiss between Anna Friel's Beth Jordache and Nicola Stephenson's Margaret Clemence EastEnders: buried alive, 2008 Philanderer Max Branning is buried alive by his estranged wife EastEnders: gay Muslim on-screen kiss, 2009 Property developer Syed Masood arrives in Albert Square with a girlfriend, but falls for Christian Clarke Coronation Street: tram crash, 2010 The ITV soap marked its 50th anniversary with the most spectacular disaster storyline yet
(9) Tod T Friendly, doctor and sometime philanderer, is a man whose inner self seems hidden from his passing conquests. "