Noun
the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
Source: WordNetI 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