libertine

• But he had never really thought of himself as a libertine or a rake—just a normally healthy male with normal, healthy appetites, who happened, perhaps, to be more fortunate than most But however it had come about, that decidedly silly wager had been made. —  Mary Balogh - The Incurable Matchmaker
• He was notoriously a libertine, a gamester, and heavily in debt: also--and this was more serious--he was accused of practising magic, as indeed he had done, as a means of exploiting to his own profit the credulity of simpletons of all degrees. —  The Historical Nights' Entertainment First Series
• He was also a reckless libertine, and, according to Dominici, having seduced a beautiful girl, he was seized with such remorse for his many crimes, as to become insupportable to himself; and to escape the general odium which was heaped upon him, he fled from Naples on board a ship, and was never heard of more. —  Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects, and Curiosities of Art, (Vol. 2 of 3)
• Were he a libertine, his influence would soon vanish; for men will never trust the important concerns of society to one they know will do what is hurtful to society for his own pleasures. —  Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica
• She summoned him to declare his reasons for it in the presence of the French ambassador and an assembly of the nobles; she besought him for God's sake to speak out, and not spare her; and at last he left her presence with an avowal that he had nothing to allege The favor shown to Bothwell had not yet given occasion for scandal, though his character as an adventurous libertine was as notable as his reputation for military hardihood; but as the summer advanced, his insolence increased with his influence at court and the general aversion of his rivals. —  The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 10

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