free love
nounDefinition of free love
1
: living openly with a sexual partner without marriage
2
: sexual relations with no commitments by either partner
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The Manson girl mythology had everything pop culture in 1969 could want: the gruesome killing of a movie star, beautiful young girl murderers, the counterculture gone wild, and a titillating hint of a hippie-ish free love ethos. — Constance Grady, Vox, "The evolving mythology of the “Manson girls”," 8 Aug. 2019 Yet the former First Lady, paragon of cool elegance and unfailing good taste, was in fact utterly devoted to that earthy fragrance note so inextricably commingled with counter-culture rebellion and free love. — April Long, Town & Country, "Jackie Kennedy's Unexpected Love of Patchouli," 28 July 2019 Many of those who had protested against war and preached free love in the decade before had grown up, settled down and bought homes and cars. — J.l., The Economist, "Now playing: yacht rock," 5 July 2019 Indeed, come July 1969, the promise of the sixties and the hippy trip of the free love movement were a few festivals and a bunch of ghoulish murders away from coming to an end. — Mitch Goodwin, Quartzy, "How David Bowie created “Space Oddity,” the ultimate space anthem," 12 July 2019 Keep it small Festivals may emanate a free love kinda vibe, but remember that threesomes are usually bad, and anything more than that is worse. — Beca Grimm, GQ, "9 Tips For Having a Happy, Clean, Consensual Music Festival Hookup," 20 Apr. 2018 Free Town Christiania, Denmark Christiania, the autonomous neighborhood in Copenhagen formed in 1971, was founded by a journalist deep into the free love movement. — Jennifer Billock, Smithsonian, "Seven Planned Utopian Towns That You Can Visit Today," 23 May 2018 But what began as a culture of peace and free love morphed, as the group struggled to keep control of the area, into a saga marked by poison attacks, attempted murders and rampant immigration fraud. — Mahita Gajanan, Time, "The Wild Wild Country Team Knows They Left Out Part of the Story. But They Did it on Purpose," 13 Apr. 2018 The turning on was supplied to Stockhausen by the Eastern mysticism, psychedelic reverie and free love that pervaded the Bay Area hippie culture. — Mark Swed, latimes.com, "Four radical and radically original pieces of music that blew up the modernist status quo in 1968," 21 Apr. 2018These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'free love.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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