Lascivious

Quick meaning: Lascivious is an adjective meaning Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

Meaning

Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

Example Sentences

Increasing numbers of English-speaking tourists have made a point of stopping in to snap pictures of themselves by the signpost at the entrance to the village, sometimes striking lascivious poses for social media.

The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke.

Synonyms for lascivious

Depending on context, synonyms include wanton, lewd, lustful, libidinous, sexy.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include libidinous, lustful, lewd, sexy, randy, wassails.

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