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lewdness

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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.
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.lewdness - the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
bawdiness, obscenity, salaciousness, salacity
indecency - the quality of being indecent
smuttiness, dirtiness - obscenity in speech or writing


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There is not, indeed, a greater error than that which universally prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion from some ignorant satirists, have affixed the character of lewdness to these times.
The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling by Fielding, Henry View in context
The worst of lewd literature is that it seems to give a sanction to lewdness in the life, and that inexperience takes this effect for reality: that is the danger and the harm, and I think the fact ought not to be blinked.
My Literary Passions by Howells,William Dean View in context
Perhaps my master might refine a little in these speculations, which he had drawn from what he observed himself, or had been told him by others; however, I could not reflect without some amazement, and much sorrow, that the rudiments of lewdness, coquetry, censure, and scandal, should have place by instinct in womankind.
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