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adjective

Lewd adj. (compar. lewder; superl. lewdest)

Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. (Obs.) "For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust." "So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they."

Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. (Archaic) "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."

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.

Synonyms: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched.

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"Lewd" Quotes from Famous Books

... gravity was feigned: Indeed, the strictness of his morals Engaged him in a hundred quarrels: He saw, and he was grieved to see't, His zeal was sometimes indiscreet: He found his virtues too severe For our corrupted times to bear: Yet, such a lewd licentious age Might well ...

— The Battle of the Books - and Other Short Pieces • Jonathan Swift

... would believe all the other things of life as not worth a straw; and that, if such were her wish, he would forever be as silent as the grave, and last no scandal would besmear her virtue. And the lewd fellow, perceiving that the lady did not stop her ears, commenced to describe to her, after the fashion of arabesque pictures, which at that time were much esteemed, the wanton inventions of debauchery. Then did his eyes shoot flame, his words ...

— Droll Stories, Complete - Collected From The Abbeys Of Touraine • Honore de Balzac

... doctrine, the offspring of perhaps the lewd embraces of a successful invader shall, from generation to generation, arrogate the right of lavishing on their pleasures a proportion of the fruits of the earth, more than sufficient to supply ...

— The World's Best Orations, Vol. 1 (of 10) • Various

... boys by schoolmasters—whom he calls in different places 'sharp, fond, & lewd'[14]—Ascham denounces strongly in the first book of his Scholemaster, and he contrasts their folly in beating into their scholars the hatred of learning with the practice of the wise riders who by ...

— Early English Meals and Manners • Various

... have an Eye to nothing but the publick Good, and exact from the Ministers a just Account of the Publick Treasure! When I have seen the Fowl of Honour thrust out to make Place for a Sycophant, Court paid to Pandars and lewd Hens, and no Posts disposed of, but thro' the Interest of Lust; how often, Britain, have I congratulated thy Happiness, where Virtue is rewarded, Vice discountenanc'd and punish'd; where the Man of Merit is provided for, and not oblig'd to pay a Levee to the kept ...

— A Voyage to Cacklogallinia - With a Description of the Religion, Policy, Customs and Manners of That Country • Captain Samuel Brunt

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