lewdness

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Recent Examples of lewdness Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior. Gayla Cawley, Boston Herald, 16 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lewdness
Noun
  • In fact, plenty of other things in your home surpass the toilet in terms of grossness.
    Mary Cornetta, Better Homes & Gardens, 24 Sep. 2025
  • Brain rot has become unavoidable, its grossness ubiquitous.
    Kyle Chayka, New Yorker, 20 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • Songs marked explicit mean their lyrics include swear words or other vulgarities.
    Melina Khan, USA Today, 3 Oct. 2025
  • The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation.
    John Feng, MSNBC Newsweek, 3 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • On Saturday, McIlroy repeatedly had to step away from his golf ball as spectators shouted obscenities and personal insults at the Irishman.
    Jenna West, New York Times, 2 Oct. 2025
  • In addition to taking the guinea pigs, the perpetrators wrote obscenities and a racial slur on a whiteboard.
    Alexandra Hardle, AZCentral.com, 27 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • There’s some rudeness, aggressive conversations, and crudeness, but nothing too over the top.
    Lynnette Nicholas, Parents, 4 Aug. 2025
Noun
  • The character builds an unlikely bond with a window dresser convicted of public indecency, Molina, played by Tonatiuh.
    Daniel S. Levine, PEOPLE, 7 Oct. 2025
  • This is a moment of indecency in political speech.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • There is plenty of coarseness in American arenas totally unrelated to MAGA or Trumpism, of course.
    Sally Jenkins, The Atlantic, 11 Oct. 2025
  • An alkaline compound, baking soda is a non-toxic cleaner with a coarseness that works wonders for scrubbing grime, removing difficult stains, and deodorizing stinky odors.
    Lauren David, Southern Living, 9 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Start with a gentle, refreshing cleanser to remove impurities without stripping the skin.
    Essence, Essence, 8 Oct. 2025
  • The best Korean face washes typically focus on soothing, gentle ingredients, removing surface oils and impurities while melting away makeup and SPF.
    Conçetta Ciarlo, Vogue, 8 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Despite the heavy central theme of chronic illness, there’s a delicious bawdiness to Will There Ever Be Another You, a vulgar juvenilia evoking graffiti-tag genitals or the ding dong ditch scene from Billy Madison.
    Eric Olson September 23, Literary Hub, 23 Sep. 2025

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“Lewdness.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lewdness. Accessed 15 Oct. 2025.

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