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lewd

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lewd  (ld)
adj. lewd·er, lewd·est
1.
a. Preoccupied with sex and sexual desire; lustful.
b. Obscene; indecent.
2. Obsolete Wicked.
[Middle English leued, unlearned, lay, lascivious, from Old English lwede, ignorant, lay.]
lewdly adv.
lewdness n.
lewd
Adjective
indecently vulgar; obscene [Old English lǣwde lay, ignorant]
lewdly adv
lewdness n
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Adj.1.lewd - suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
raunchy, salacious, obscene
dirty - (of behavior or especially language) characterized by obscenity or indecency; "dirty words"; "a dirty old man"; "dirty books and movies"; "boys telling dirty jokes"; "has a dirty mouth"
2.lewd - driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
lascivious, libidinous, lustful
sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"
lewd
adjective indecent, obscene, vulgar, dirty, blue, loose, vile, pornographic, wicked, wanton, X-rated (informal) profligate, bawdy, salacious, impure, lascivious, smutty, lustful, libidinous, licentious, unchaste
Translations
lewd [luːd] adj → lascivo, obsceno, colorado (LAM)
lewd [luːd] adj → obscène, lubrique
lewd [luːd] adj [look etc] → lüstern; [remark] → anzüglich
lewd [luːd] adj → osceno/a, lascivo/a


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All possible care, however, has been taken to give no lewd ideas, no immodest turns in the new dressing up of this story; no, not to the worst parts of her expressions.
The Fortunes & Misfortunes of the Famous Moll Flanders by Defoe, Daniel View in context
It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which men and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts: a fair face concealed a depraved mind; the virtuous used virtue as a mask to hide their secret vice, the seeming-strong fainted within with their weakness; the honest were corrupt, the chaste were lewd.
Of Human Bondage by Maugham, W. Somerset View in context
--At this gilded, falsified populace, whose fathers were pickpockets, or carrion-crows, or rag-pickers, with wives compliant, lewd and forgetful:-- for they are all of them not far different from harlots--
Thus Spake Zarathustra: A Book For All And None by Nietzsche, Friedrich View in context
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