Libertine vs Sleazy - What's the difference?
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One who is freethinking in religious matters.
Someone (especially a man) who takes no notice of moral laws, especially those involving sexual propriety; someone loose in morals; a pleasure-seeker.
* 2007 , Choderlos de Laclos, Dangerous Liaisons , tr. Helen Constantine, Penguin 2007, p. 123,
Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.
Libertine is a related term of sleazy.
As adjectives the difference between libertine and sleazy
is that libertine is dissolute, licentious, profligate; loose in morals while sleazy is marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.As a noun libertine
is (historical) someone freed from slavery in ancient rome; a freedman or libertine can be one who is freethinking in religious matters.libertine
English
(wikipedia libertine)Etymology 1
From (etyl) ; see liberal, liberate.Etymology 2
From (etyl) libertinNoun
(en noun)- So the truth of the matter is that a libertine' in love, if indeed a ' libertine can be in love, becomes from that moment in less of a hurry to enjoy the pleasures of the flesh.
