LEWD

lewd, obscene, raunchy, salacious

(adjective) suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; “lewd pictures”; “an indecent gesture”; “obscene telephone calls”; “salacious limericks”

lascivious, lewd, libidinous, lustful

(adjective) driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; “libidinous orgies”

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Adjective

lewd (comparative lewder, superlative lewdest)

Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

(obsolete) Lay; not clerical.

(obsolete) Uneducated.

(obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.

(obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.

Verb

lewd (third-person singular simple present lewds, present participle lewding, simple past and past participle lewded)

To get high on quaalude.

To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.

Anagrams

• Weld, weld

Source: Wiktionary

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Lewd, a. [Compar. Lewder; superl. Lewdest.] Etym: [OE.lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l laical, belonging to the laity.]

1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] For if 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. Sit. 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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