(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 .
Rounder
Definition:
(n.) A tool for making an edge or surface round.
(n.) One who rounds; one who comes about frequently or regularly.
(n.) An English game somewhat resembling baseball; also, another English game resembling the game of fives, but played with a football.
Example Sentences:
(1) British commentators, famously, do not nurture stars; they mistrust the able and reserve especial snootiness for the multi-able, as if to be a good all-rounder is, yet, to be a master of none.
(2) For someone who has called out Miguel Cotto, Liam Smith made surprisingly hard work of beating an opponent whose first bout of 2015 was a four-rounder in a small hall in Lancashire.
(3) Granule cells differentiation, as judged by the transformation of polymorph, darkly staining small cells into rounder, lightly staining larger granule cells, follows the same gradient from the external dentate limb to the internal dentate limb.
(4) As an all-rounder, he is the best right-sided player on the planet.
(5) Multivariate analysis of variance showed that culture time and subject group had significant effects: changes during macrophage development were less marked in the patient group, nucleoli were fewer, rounder and possibly smaller than normal.
(6) In his dust blue suit and shimmering yellow tie, he is rounder than he was in 2008 (eating too many of his children's leftovers).
(7) While some of the cells had their secretory granules located basally and a long narrow part extending toward the lumen, many appeared rounder and the plane of the section did not indicate that they extended to the lumen.
(8) Nasa geologists said the rounder shape of some of the pebbles suggested they had travelled long distances from above the crater rim.
(9) Incubation of stromal cells with a mixture of estradiol, medroxyprogesterone acetate and relaxin, at a concentration reported to yield maximal stimulation of PRL production, resulted in changes from elongated to rounder cells, approx.
(10) The better the impression material fills the ear canal, the rounder the tip of the impression, and the rounder the tip of the earmould made from the impression.
(11) For greater long or short axes of the detected nodes, or for rounder nodes, the metastasis rate was higher.
(12) The early word was that GTA IV would scale back the excesses of San Andreas and provide a rounder, more succinctly inhabited game experience.
(13) These small cells were larger and rounder than those of the SCG.
(14) The jazz-loving, heroically cigarette-smoking, Hull City-supporting Plater was a populist all-rounder with more than 300 assorted credits in radio, television, theatre and films (his screenplay for DH Lawrence's The Virgin and the Gypsy, directed by Christopher Miles in 1970, is probably his best) as well as journalism, six novels, broadcasting and teaching.
(15) Over this pressure range, the bulges in the spindle-shaped structures in the monolayer became rounder in shape and the number of openings on the surface was apparently greater at 22 mm Hg than at 15 and 8 mm Hg.
(16) Those in the remaining renal tubules, which are lipid-free, were rounder and less uniform in size.
(17) Two centennial CD releases encapsulate the arguments: one out this week is a 3CD set from the Smithsonian Institution and the other is an extraordinary project in the pipeline at Rounder Records that will culminate in seven CDs and a book by the label's founder, Bill Nowlin.
(18) The stromal fraction cells were initially fusiform and proliferated; in culture, they accumulated lipid inclusions, became rounder and acquired an eccentric nucleus.
(19) The dividing trophozoite has daughter cells that are rounder than the pleomorphic, non-dividing trophozoites.
(20) Samples from the forage-crop region contained more organic material, a greater water soluble fraction and had particles that were, on average, smaller and rounder than particles from the grain district.