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- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
lewd \lewd\ l=ud, a. compar. lewder -~er; superl.
lewdest. oe. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, as.
l=aewed laical, belonging to the laity.
1. not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
obs.
1913 webster
for if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
no wonder is a lewed man to rust. --chaucer.
1913 webster
so these great clerks their little wisdom show
to mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --sir.
j. davies.
1913 webster
2. belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and
lawless; bad; vicious. archaic --chaucer.
1913 webster
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.
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too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of
mischief. --southey.
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3. given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute;
lustful; libidinous. --dryden.
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4. suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving
unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or
language.
1913 webster
syn: lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute;
sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous;
rakish; debauched. -- lewd"ly, adv. -- lewd"ness, n.
1913 webster
see also:
lewder lewdest oe lewd"ly lewd"ness
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
lewd
adj 1: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent
gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious
limericks" syn: obscene, raunchy, salacious
2: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful
desires; "libidinous orgies" syn: lascivious, libidinous,
lustful
see also:
obscene raunchy salacious lascivious libidinous lustful
- [3] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
80 moby thesaurus words for "lewd":
fescennine, rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, blue,
carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, debauched,
dirty, dissolute, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast,
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, 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
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