He is a libertine person who is uninhibited by the rules of morality or…
2025
He is a libertine person who is uninhibited by the rules of morality or tradition.
- A.
He is a person of a free-spirited mentality, unbound by the rules of morality or traditions.
- B.
He is a person of criminal mentality who can’t be controlled by the rules of morality or traditions.
- C.
He is a wicked person who is uncontrollable by the rules of morality or traditions.
- 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.