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adjective

Lascivious adj.

Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.

Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions. "He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute."

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Etymology of 'Lascivious'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Lascivious" Quotes from Famous Books

... to your question concerning your host. To speak truly, he is not to me a good companion, for most of his conceits were either scripture jests, or lascivious jests, for which I count no man witty: for the devil will help a man, that way inclined, to the first; and his own corrupt nature, which he always carries with him, to the latter. But a companion that feasts the company with wit ...

— The Complete Angler • Izaak Walton

... of his lascivious pleasures, also became bored by those who called in order to enlist his influence in their cause for monetary consideration. Hence he surrounded himself with a trio of expert swindlers. They consisted of a certain adventurous prince named Gorianoff, a man named Striaptchef—who had been ...

— The Minister of Evil - The Secret History of Rasputin's Betrayal of Russia • William Le Queux

... is furnished by the Marquise de Brinvilliers, the notorious poisoner, who succeeded in deceiving the venerable prison-chaplain so completely that he regarded her as a model of penitence, yet in her last moments she wrote to her husband denying her guilt and exhibited lascivious and ...

— Criminal Man - According to the Classification of Cesare Lombroso • Gina Lombroso-Ferrero

... Munch selects his themes among the poor and the middle class. He can paint an empty room traversed by a gleam of moonlight and set one to thinking a half day on such an apparently barren theme. He may suggest the erotic, but never the lascivious. A thinker doubled by an artist he is the one man north who recalls the harsh but ...

— Ivory Apes and Peacocks • James Huneker

... Never shall I accustom myself to the idea, that Louise, the most chaste and the most innocent of women, has been able so basely to deceive a man so honest and so true a lover as I am. Never can I persuade myself that I see that sweet and good mask change into a hypocritical and lascivious face. Louise lost! Louise infamous! Ah! monseigneur, that idea is much more cruel to me than Raoul ...

— The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Or Ten Years Later being the completion of "The Three - Musketeers" And "Twenty Years After" • Alexandre Dumas

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