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  • 101decadent — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. ruined, fallen; depraved, debauched, dissolute; sentimental, nostalgic; blasé, cynical. See deterioration, impurity. II (Roget s IV) modif. 1. [Regressive] Syn. declining, moribund, decaying, on the …

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  • 102impurity — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) Moral uncleanness Nouns 1. impurity, immodesty, grossness, indelicacy, indecency; pornography, curiosa, obscenity, ribaldry, smut, bawdy, filth, double entendre; coprophilia; pornographic movie, blue… …

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  • 103loose — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. free, detached; flowing, unbound; vague, incoherent, diffuse; unrestrained, slack; dissipated, wanton, dissolute. See disjunction, impurity. v. t. free; loosen, unbind, undo; relax. See freedom. Ant …

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  • 104profligate — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. wanton, reckless, wild, intemperate; extravagant, wasteful. n. roué, rake, libertine, lecher, reprobate; wastrel, spendthrift, squanderer, playboy. See waste, impurity, evildoer. Ant., economical.… …

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  • 105wanton — I (New American Roget s College Thesaurus) adj. lewd, licentious, loose, dissolute, immoral; frolicsome, abandoned, capricious, willful; wild; heartless, malicious; heedless, reckless, wayward, perverse; luxuriant, rampant, exuberant. See… …

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  • 106Vice — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Vice >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 vice vice Sgm: N 1 evil doing evil doing evil courses Sgm: N 1 wrongdoing wrongdoing Sgm: N 1 wickedness wickedness viciousness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 iniquity …

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  • 107profligate — [ prɒflɪgət] adjective recklessly extravagant or wasteful. ↘licentious; dissolute. noun a profligate person. Derivatives profligacy noun profligately adverb Origin C16: from L. profligatus dissolute , past participle of profligare overthrow, ruin …

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  • 108immoral — a. 1. [Said of actions.] Wrong, wicked, vicious, sinful, corrupt, loose. 2. [Said of persons.] Bad, wicked, unprincipled, depraved, loose in behavior, profligate, dissolute, vicious. 3. [Said of habitual conduct.] Loose, depraved, unprincipled,… …

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  • 109libertine — I. n. Rake, debauchee, profligate, roué, dissolute man, man of pleasure. II. a. Licentious, dissolute, depraved, corrupt …

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  • 110profligate — 1. adjective 1) profligate local authorities Syn: wasteful, extravagant, spendthrift, improvident, prodigal Ant: thrifty, frugal 2) a profligate lifestyle Syn: dissolute …

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