Meaning

Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude..

Definitions by Sense

1. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
3. (obsolete) Uneducated.
4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
5. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
6. A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
7. (slang, ambitransitive) To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.
8. (fandom slang, transitive) To sexualize a character, especially in a fan illustration.

Example Sentences

Onstage he was known for ricochet riffs on politics, social issues and cultural matters both high and low; tales of drug and alcohol abuse; lewd commentaries on relations between the sexes; and lightning-like improvisations on anything an audience member might toss at him.

So these great clerks their little wisdom show / To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they.

My ſcoles are not for unthriftes untaught, / For frantick faitours half mad and half ſtraught; / But my learning is of another degree / To taunt theim like liddrons, lewde as thei bee.

But the Jews, which believed not, […] took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, […] and assaulted the house of Jason.

Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.

Nudes, lewds and smutty outhouse cards, although they can be bought in some of the rowdy joints, are a negligible percentage of the total, and are unobtainable in the chain stores, drugstores and travel stations which are the outlets for […]

[…] also put it, he learned “the difference between nudes and lewds."

"Well then,” dropping her bathrobe, lewding her lips, “how 'bout some lovee?”

Word Forms

• lewder
• lewdest
• lewds
• lewding
• lewded

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