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lewdness

[ UK /lˈuːdnəs/ ]
NOUN
  1. the trait of behaving in an obscene manner

How To Use lewdness In A Sentence

  • On the contrary, I have carefully preserved this and as far as the subject would give me leave, improved it, but with this caution always, that I have set forth the entertainments of vice in their proper colours, lest young people might be led to take them for innocent diversions, and from figures not uncommon in modern authors, learn to call lewdness gallantry, and the effects of unbridled lust the starts of too warm an imagination. Lives of the Most Remarkable Criminals Who have been Condemned and Executed for Murder, the Highway, Housebreaking, Street Robberies, Coining or other offences
  • Greek officers visited Lancashire this summer as part of a project with the county's police to help them cut back on violence, lewdness and other drunken behaviour in the resort.
  • With this Masrur was confounded and could make her no answer; but presently she said, “Indeed, the master-thief, if he steal, stealeth not but what is worth his neck, and every woman who doth lewdness with other than her husband is styled a thief; so, if it must be thus and no help320, thou shalt give me whatsoever my heart desireth of money and raiment and ornaments and what not.” The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
  •     Could in utter hate to lewdness your sex dishabilitate; Poems and Fragments
  • They don't even complain about the lewdness and promiscuity being displayed on the so-called soap operas.
  • Could in utter hate to lewdness your sex dishabilitate; The Poems and Fragments of Catullus
  • As the member of a women's club that constantly crusades against public lewdness and drinking - the same club that got the science teacher fired - she believes that sex should never be discussed in the home.
  • The estate of the criminal is confiscated, and all that belonged to her destroyed with her (v. 39): They shall throw down thy eminent place, and (v. 41) they shall burn thy houses, as the habitations of bad women are destroyed, in detestation of their lewdness. Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume IV (Isaiah to Malachi)
  • The campus experienced two earlier instances of "lewdness" last weekend, which was Princeton's first admitted students 'weekend of the year. Yale Daily News: Latest Issue
  • They don't even complain about the lewdness and promiscuity being displayed on the so-called soap operas.
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