bawdry

Noun

Meaning

The practice of procuring women for the gratification of lust.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

bawdy bender smut blight animalism decline decay corruption degradation dirt curse abandonment pornography degeneration impurity
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Antonyms

honor integrity morality purity dignity goodness
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Hypernyms

smut obscenity filth dirty word vulgarism

Examples

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness. Lawrence Durrell

In our fathers' time nothing was read but books of feigned chivalry, wherein a man by reading should be led to none other end, but only to manslaughter and bawdry. Roger Ascham

it was smoking-room bawdry Source: Internet

they published a collection of Elizabethan bawdy Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

bawdkin bawdric bawdrick bawdship bawdy bawdy basket