Lewd

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.]
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              For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust,
              No wonder is a lewed man to rust.     --Chaucer.
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              So these great clerks their little wisdom show
              To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they. --Sir.
                                                    J. Davies.
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     2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and
        lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic] --Chaucer.
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              But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto
              them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . .
              and assaulted the house of Jason.     --Acts xvii.
                                                    5.
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              Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of
              mischief.                             --Southey.
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     3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute;
        lustful; libidinous. --Dryden.
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     4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving
        unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or
        language.
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     Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute;
          sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous;
          rakish; debauched. -- {Lewd"ly}, adv. -- {Lewd"ness}, n.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  lewd
       adj 1: suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd
              whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent
              gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious
              limericks" [syn: {obscene}, {raunchy}, {salacious}]
       2: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful
          desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: {lascivious}, {libidinous},
           {lustful}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  80 Moby Thesaurus words for "lewd":
     Fescennine, Rabelaisian, animal, aphrodisiomaniacal, bawdy, blue,
     carnal, clitoromaniacal, coarse, concupiscent, crude, debauched,
     dirty, dissolute, erotic, eroticomaniacal, erotomaniacal, fast,
     filthy, fleshly, foul, foul-mouthed, foul-spoken, foul-tongued,
     fulsome, goatish, gross, gynecomaniacal, hircine, horny, hot,
     hysteromaniacal, improper, impure, incontinent, indecent,
     indelicate, ithyphallic, lascivious, lecherous, libertine,
     libidinous, licentious, lickerish, lubricious, lubricous, lurid,
     lustful, nasty, nymphomaniacal, obscene, offensive, pornographic,
     priapic, prurient, randy, raunchy, raw, ribald, rude, ruttish,
     salacious, satyric, satyrical, scurrile, scurrilous, sensual,
     sexual, sexy, smoking-room, smutty, suggestive, sultry, unchaste,
     unclean, unprintable, unrepeatable, unvirtuous, vile, wild