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adjective

Lewd adj. (compar. lewder; superl. lewdest)

Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. (Obs.) "For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust." "So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they."

Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. (Archaic) "But the Jews, which believed not,... took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort,... and assaulted the house of Jason." "Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief."

Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.

Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

Synonyms: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched.

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"Lewd" Quotes from Famous Books

... refined sexual feelings. Details given in later chapters will show that what Turner says of the Samoans, "From their childhood their ears are familiar with the most obscene conversation;" and what the Rev. George Taplan writes of the "immodest and lewd" dances of the Australians, applies to the lower races in general. The history of love is, indeed, epitomized in the evolution of the dance from its aboriginal obscenity and licentiousness to its present function as chiefly a means of bringing young people together and providing ...

— Primitive Love and Love-Stories • Henry Theophilus Finck

... not less than ten years;" if over 12, "imprisonment in the penitentiary not less than three months nor more than ten years; provided no conviction shall be had on the unsupported testimony of the female ... or if the female is a bawd, lewd ...

— The History of Woman Suffrage, Volume IV • Various

... lashest thy rocks and roarest, "Hence words are learnt; hence eloquence; most necessary to gain your ends, or maintain opinions." As if we should have never known such words as "golden shower," "lap," "beguile," "temples of the heavens," or others in that passage, unless Terence had brought a lewd youth upon the stage, setting up Jupiter ...

— The Confessions of Saint Augustine • Saint Augustine

... whatsoever things are ugly, and whatsoever things are branded with a stigma by all men they think on these things. Like the flies that are attracted to a piece of putrid meat, there are young men who are drawn by all the lustful, the lewd, the impure thoughts; and there are young women who are too idle and uncultivated to have any pleasure in anything higher than gossip and trivial fiction. 'Whatsoever things are noble and lovely, think on these things,' and get ...

— Expositions Of Holy Scripture - Volume I: St. Luke, Chaps. I to XII • Alexander Maclaren

... was celebrated at Gager's. People came from fifty miles round. Patriotism? No! but love of human fellowship. The celebrated Pierre Bottineau and the other Canadians and half-breeds were there, mellowed with drink, singing the sensual and almost lewd French rowing songs their fathers had sung on the St. Lawrence. "Whisky Jim," the retired stage driver, and Hans Brinkerhoff and the other German settlers, with two or three Yankees, completed the slender crowd, which comprised almost the entire population of six ...

— Duffels • Edward Eggleston

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