immoralist
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editimmoralist (plural immoralists)
- An advocate of immorality
- 2002 February 22, Nicholas de Jongh, “Escapist pleasure as Vanessa and Joely share stage”, in Evening Standard, London, page 7:
- WHEN it comes to poking serious fun at High Society and making a quiet mockery of its hypocritical ways there’s still no one one[sic] to match the Victorian age’s master of homosexual immorality, Mr Oscar Wilde. […] Wilde, being a first-class subversive, implies that the Wicked Lady, an unshamed adventureress and serial lover, ought be admired for the courage of her convictions: by contrast he mocks the aristocrats as immoralists desperate to be caught in a good light.
- An adherent or practitioner of immoralism
Translations
editan advocate of immorality
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