lewdness

Noun

Meaning

the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

obscenity bawdiness salacity salaciousness smut fornication animalism desire evil vice corruption lust pornography impurity immorality
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Antonyms

best good advantage accuracy honor beauty
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Hypernyms

indecency

Hyponyms

dirtiness smuttiness

Phrases with the word

public lewdness

Examples

I do not understand the capricious lewdness of the sleeping mind. John Cheever

Jesting and levity lead a man to lewdness. Akiba ben Joseph

Men, gay or straight, can get beauty and lewdness into one image. Women are forever softening, censoring, politicizing. Camille Paglia

Sin is the mother, and shame the daughter of lewdness. Philip Sidney

Mark McLelland puts forth the observation that the term "hentai" found itself shortened to "H" and that the English pronunciation was " etchi ", referring to lewdness and which did not carry the stronger connotation of abnormality or perversion. Source: Internet

A Long Island man was arrested for raping two women in Manhattan while he was at the Nassau County Supreme Court for public lewdness and child pornography possession cases on Thursday, officials said. Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

lewd lewdity lewdly lewdsome lewdster Lewellen