lascivious

Speech parts

1. lascivious - Adjective

2. lascivious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

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

Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lustful lewd wanton libidinous cyprian randy impure horny naughty libertine venereal hircine sexual hot offensive
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Antonyms

white blase cold proper moral pure
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Related terms

lasciviency lascious lascivient lascivity

Phrases with the word

lascivious potential lascivious old man

Anagrams

laviscious

Examples

Antony, leave thy lascivious wassails. Antony and Cleopatra

The royal refugee our breed restores With foreign courtiers and with foreign whores, And carefully repeopled us again, Throughout his lazy, long, lascivious reign. Daniel Defoe

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According to biographer Jean Pierre Lion, "Bix was accused of having taken this man's five-year-old daughter into a garage and committing on her an act qualified by the police report as 'lewd and lascivious.' Source: Internet

As Mary Poovey explains, "Wollstonecraft betrays her fear that female desire might in fact court man's lascivious and degrading attentions, that the subordinate position women have been given might even be deserved. Source: Internet

Harmony was not only considered frivolous, impious, and lascivious, but an obstruction to the audibility of the words. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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