He is a libertine person who is uninhibited by the rules of morality or…

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He is a libertine person who is uninhibited by the rules of morality or tradition.

  1. A.

    He is a person of a free-spirited mentality, unbound by the rules of morality or traditions.

  2. B.

    He is a person of criminal mentality who can’t be controlled by the rules of morality or traditions.

  3. C.

    He is a wicked person who is uncontrollable by the rules of morality or traditions.

  4. D.

    None

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Correct answer: C

A libertine is defined by a specific, negative moral judgement: someone who deliberately disregards the accepted rules of morality and tradition, indulging their own desires without restraint — the word carries a disapproving, ‘wicked’ connotation, not a neutral sense of personal liberty.

The sentence describes a man who is ‘uninhibited by the rules of morality or tradition’ — exactly the disapproving sense above: someone who defies conventional moral standards and cannot be restrained by them, i.e. a wicked person uncontrollable by the rules of morality or traditions.

Why the other options don’t fit:

  • ‘Free mentality and freedom from all the rules...’ reads as a neutral, even positive, description of liberty — it misses the disapproving, morally-transgressive sense that ‘libertine’ specifically carries.

  • ‘Criminal mentality...can’t be controlled by the rules of morality’ wrongly equates disregard for MORAL norms with breaking the LAW — a libertine defies convention and morality, not necessarily legal statutes.

  • ‘None’ assumes no offered description fits, but one option does capture the exact sense of the word.

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