lewd
Speech parts
1. lewd - Noun
2. lewd - Adjective
3. lewd - Verb
5. lewd - Adjective Satellite
Meaning
Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.
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.
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People had a habit of looking at me as if I were some kind of mirror instead of a person. They didn't see me, they saw their own lewd thoughts, then they white-masked themselves by calling me the lewd one.
To the much-tossed Ulysses, never done With woman whether gowned as wife or whore, Penelope and Circe seemed as one: She like a whore made his lewd fancies run, And wifely she a hero to him bore.
At last incapable of further harm, The lewd forefathers of the village sleep.
Is there to be no getting away from this loathsome vegetative physicality?... Utter contempt for the lewd enticements that always lure us back into life's clutches. And when, half-parched, we seek to quench our thirst, the gods laugh us to scorn.
Mother of quartz, your words writhe into my ear. Renew the light, lewd whisper.
Lewd women, let the voluptuous Saint-Ange be your model; after her example, be heedless of all that contradicts pleasure's divine laws, by which all her life she was enchained.