Definition of lascivious
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lasciviously
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Examples of lascivious in a Sentence
He was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior.
was fired for making lascivious remarks to a coworker
Recent Examples of lascivious from the Web
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Martin is facing four counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between 12 and 16.
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Love was awaiting trial on charges of lewd and lascivious acts with a child and false imprisonment, according to San Bernardino County Superior Court records.
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Police are recommending Tingler be charged with resisting arrest, battery to an officer and lewd and lascivious behavior.
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John C. Reilly, Molly Shannon, Paul Reiser, Fred Armisen—through a period-dress but colloquially spoken farce about a cloister of lascivious nuns and their randy gardener.
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Their lives were lascivious and chaotic—exciting and innovative, sure, but also reductive.
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At a conference in May, the U.S.G.A. executive director Mike Davis answered questions about Trump’s more lascivious remarks against women in the past and how the organization reconciles its choice to remain at the Bedminster site.
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The following year, Leary pleaded guilty to armed robbery, armed burglary, kidnapping and lewd and lascivious behavior.
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Every single one of those scenes upends the usual lascivious eye of cable TV nudity: bad things happen to the characters who ogle these naked hosts, and there is inherent power in seeing the the cast shut down like naked, broken Barbie Dolls.
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Origin and Etymology of lascivious
Middle English, from Late Latin lasciviosus, from Latin lascivia wantonness, from lascivus wanton — more at lust
lascivious Synonyms
Synonyms
bawdy, blue, coarse, crude, dirty, filthy, foul, gross, gutter, impure, indecent, obscene, lewd, locker-room, nasty, pornographic, porny, profane, raunchy, ribald, smutty, stag, trashy, unprintable, vulgar, wanton, X-ratedAntonyms
clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene, wholesomeRelated Words
broad, coarse-grained, gamy (or gamey), off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, risqué, salacious, salty, suggestive; barnyard, earthy, scatological; immodest, indecorous, indelicate, low, unbecoming; depraved, kinky, louche, naughty, perverse, perverted, wicked; exceptionable, objectionable, unacceptable, undesirable, unwanted, unwelcome; abhorrent, debasing, disgusting, loathsome, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting; distasteful, obnoxious, unpleasant; blamable, blameworthy, censurable, reprehensible; atrocious, infamous; abusive, scurrilous; hard-core, soft, soft-coreNear Antonyms
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian; correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly; innocuous, inoffensive; acceptable, agreeable, desirable, pleasant, pleasing, welcome; appropriate, becoming, fit, meet, suitable; immaculate, perfect, pure, spotless, virginal; approved, endorsed (also indorsed), sanctionedLASCIVIOUS Defined for English Language Learners
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Definition of lascivious for English Language Learners
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: filled with or showing sexual desire
Law Dictionary
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las·civ·i·ous
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legal Definition of lascivious
:reflecting or producing sexual desire or behavior especially that is considered indecent or obscene
- lewd and lascivious behavior
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