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Lewd Definition And Meaning |
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What's The Definition Of Lewd?
[adj] suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
[adj] driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" Synonyms | Synonyms for Lewd: dirty | lascivious | libidinous | lustful | obscene | salacious | sexy Related Terms | Find terms related to Lewd: animal | aphrodisiomaniacal | bawdy | blue | carnal | clitoromaniacal | coarse | concupiscent | crude | debauched | dirty | dissolute | erotic | eroticomaniacal | erotomaniacal | fast | Fescennine | filthy | fleshly | foul | foul-mouthed | foul-spoken | foul-tongued | fulsome | goatish | gross | gynecomaniacal | hircine | horny | hot | hysteromaniacal | improper | impure | incontinent | indecent | indelicate | ithyphallic | lascivious | lecherous | libertine | libidinous | licentious | lickerish | lubricious | lubricous | lurid | lustful | nasty | nymphomaniacal | obscene | offensive | pornographic | priapic | prurient | Rabelaisian | randy | raunchy | raw | ribald | rude | ruttish | salacious | satyric | satyrical | scurrile | scurrilous | sensual | sexual | sexy | smoking-room | smutty | suggestive | sultry | unchaste | unclean | unprintable | unrepeatable | unvirtuous | vile | wild See Also | Lewd In Webster's Dictionary \Lewd\ (l[=u]d), a. [Compar. {Lewder} (-[~e]r); superl.
{Lewdest}.] [{OE}. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS.
l[=ae]wed laical, belonging to the laity.]
1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
[Obs.]
For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder
is a lewed man to rust. --Chaucer.
So these great clerks their little wisdom show To
mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --Sir. J.
Davies.
2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and
lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto
them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . .
and assaulted the house of Jason. --Acts xvii.
5.
Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of
mischief. --Southey.
3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute;
lustful; libidinous. --Dryden.
4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving
unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or
language.
Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute;
sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous;
rakish; debauched. -- {Lewd"ly}, adv. -- {Lewd"ness}, n.
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