Licentious

Licentious (adj): showing disregard for societal rules and expectations of correctness

"...what, then, explains this licentiousness, on the one hand, in the civilized part of our society?"
(Dostoevsky, 151)


Many people feel that sports fans who dress in culturally inaccurate ways to support their team are in fact behaving licentiously.

Dostoevsky, Fyodor. Crime and Punishment. Trans. Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. Print.

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