lewd
Definition: Obscene or indecent; characterized by lust or lasciviousness
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Kim - By Rudyard Kipling, John Lockwood Kipling
...He knew what the faquirs of the Taksali Gate were like when they talked among themselves, and copied the very inflection of their lewd disciples . '...
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - By James Joyce
...Why did you not give up that lewd habit, that impure habit ?...
Don Quixote - By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra
...He laid extremely heavy penalties upon those who sang lewd or loose songs either by day or night ....
Far from the Madding Crowd - By Thomas Hardy
...We ought to feel real thanksgiving that he 's not a player of loose songs instead of these merry tunes; for ` twould have been just as easy for God to have made the shepherd a lewd low man--a man of iniquity, so to speak it--as what he is ....
Of Human Bondage - By William Somerset Maugham
...It was a strange life, dark and tortured, in which men and women showed to remorseless eyes the evil that was in their hearts : a fair face concealed a depraved mind; the virtuous used virtue as a mask to hide their secret vice, the seeming-strong fainted within with their weakness; the honest were corrupt, the chaste were lewd ....
Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc - By Mark Twain, Roy J. Friedman Mark Twain Collection (Library of Congress)
...They went roaring and drinking about, whooping, shouting, swearing, and entertaining themselves with all manner of rude and riotous horse-play; and the place was full of loud and lewd women, and they were no whit behind the men for romps and noise and fantastics ....
Westward Ho! - By Charles Kingsley, N. C. Wyeth
...`` They come mostly through lewd rascals about the French ambassador ....
The Vicar of Wakefield - By Oliver Goldsmith
...It has never been my way to treat the infamous or the lewd with severity; nor should I now have taken this method of explaining myself, 20 or reproving folly, did it not aim at guilt ....
The Damnation of Theron Ware - By Harold Frederic
...It was years now since any one who knew him had ventured upon lewd pleasantries in his hearing ....
Tom Jones - By Henry Fielding
...There is not, indeed, a greater error, than that which universally prevails among the vulgar, who, borrowing their opinion fi'om some ignorant satirists, have affixed the character of lewd-ness to these times ....
The Last Days of Pompeii - By Edward Bulwer Lytton Lytton
...And in the lewd and profligate rites of Pan, Christians might well imagine they traced the deceptions of the Devil ....