libertarianism

noun

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as in prurience

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Recent Examples of libertarianism Manners’ combination of private sector achievement with his passionate support of libertarianism is a way to pivot to someone Manners holds in high regard, Sir Antony Fisher (1915-1988). — John Tamny, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025 While Hollywood swings left politically, its economic reality as revealed through the recollections of its leading lights makes a case for free-market libertarianism in ways that few professions do. — John Tamny, Forbes, 1 Jan. 2025 Well, thanks to both of you for this discussion about libertarianism and liberaltarianism in Silicon Valley. — Lauren Goode, WIRED, 21 Nov. 2024
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  1. prurience
  2. lechery
  3. libertinism
Noun
  • Their psychic life is not pried with pity or prurience; their paralysis or tragic humility is not mined for metaphor.
    — Seyward Darby, Longreads, 16 July 2024
  • These actors’ television fame adds a whisper of remembered prurience here, a flavor of kitsch there.
    — Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
Definition of prurience
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  • Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
    — The New Yorker, The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
  • Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
Definition of lechery
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  • Still, a story that’s equal parts an exploration of libertinism and also a scorching take on the elite remained a tempting narrative to explore.
    — Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 20 Nov. 2024
  • Where his first two books take Bulgaria as backdrop and a certain kind of soft-skinned, deeply feeling libertinism as narrative vehicle, Small Rain functions as a midlife sequel, one that is quietly, unabashedly romantic.
    — Sarah Thankam Mathews, Vulture, 29 Aug. 2024
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