lewdness

lewdness
n
1. lechery, lecherousness, lubricity, goatishness, ruttishness; lust, lustfulness, concupiscence, prurience, pruriency, libidinousness, salacity, salaciousness; carnality, carnalness, carnalism, sensuality, voluptuousness, promiscuity, eroticism, erotism; immodesty, impudicity, impurity, unchasteness, unchastity, unvirtuousness. 65
92. debauchery, dissoluteness, rakishness, dissipation, profligacy; licentiousness, wantonness, unrestraint, abandon, incontinence, self-indulgence; aphrodisia, sexual passion or desire, Pathol. satyriasis, Pathol. nymphomania; unnatural desire, incest, incestuousness, pederasty, sodomy, buggery, sadism, masochism; Psychiatry. coprophilia.
3. obscenity, obsceneness, luridness; pornography, Inf. porno, Inf. porn, smut, smuttiness; bawdiness, bawdry, scurrility, ribaldry; vulgarity, vulgarism, vul-garness, coarseness, crudity, crudeness.

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  • lewdness — index debauchery, obscenity, perversion, pornography, vice Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 …   Law dictionary

  • lewdness — The unlawful indulgence of lust; sexual impurity; gross indecency with respect to the sexual relation. State v Rayburn, 170 Iowa 514, 153 NW 59. The common law offense of lewdness means open and public indecency, and in order to amount to an… …   Ballentine's law dictionary

  • Lewdness —    (Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the modern sense of the word. The word lewd is from the Saxon, and means properly ignorant, unlearned, and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5) …   Easton's Bible Dictionary

  • lewdness — Gross and wanton indecency in sexual relations so notorious as to tend to corrupt community s morals. Hensley v. City of Norfolk, 218 N.E.2d 735, 740, 216 Va. 369. Licentiousness; that form of immorality which has relation to sexual impurity.… …   Black's law dictionary

  • lewdness — Gross and wanton indecency in sexual relations so notorious as to tend to corrupt community s morals. Hensley v. City of Norfolk, 218 N.E.2d 735, 740, 216 Va. 369. Licentiousness; that form of immorality which has relation to sexual impurity.… …   Black's law dictionary

  • lewdness — lewd ► ADJECTIVE ▪ crude and offensive in a sexual way. DERIVATIVES lewdly adverb lewdness noun. ORIGIN originally in the sense «belonging to the laity», later «belonging to the common people, vulgar»: from Old English …   English terms dictionary

  • Lewdness — Lewd Lewd (l[=u]d), a. [Compar. {Lewder} ( [ e]r); superl. {Lewdest}.] [{OE}. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l[=ae]wed laical, belonging to the laity.] 1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] For if a …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

  • lewdness — noun see lewd …   New Collegiate Dictionary

  • lewdness — See lewdly. * * * …   Universalium

  • lewdness — noun The property of being lewd …   Wiktionary

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