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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

... of heresy, thanked be God," said the bishops in 1529, "there hath no notable person fallen in our time;" no chief priest, chief ruler, or learned Pharisee—not one. "Truth it is that certain apostate friars and monks, lewd priests, bankrupt merchants, vagabonds and lewd idle fellows of corrupt nature, have embraced the abominable and erroneous opinions lately sprung in Germany, and by them have been some seduced in simplicity and ignorance. Against these, if judgment ...

— History of England from the Fall of Wolsey to the Death of Elizabeth. Vol. II. • James Anthony Froude

... satisfactory; and if I must ride with you, Sir Oliver, you'll understand it to be under protest. You are a lewd man. You ...

— Lady Good-for-Nothing • A. T. Quiller-Couch

... inducing the privy council to issue an order of suppression against it and other playhouses. The order begins as follows: "Her Majestie being informed that there are verie greate disorders committed in the common playhouses both by lewd matters that are handled on the stages, and by resorte and confluence of bad people, hathe given direction that not onlie no playes shall be used within London or about the Citty, or in any public place, during this tyme of ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Vol. 1-20 • Various

... this day divorce is the common occurrence in Japan. According to Confucius there are seven grounds of divorce: disobedience, barrenness, lewd conduct, jealousy, leprosy or any other foul or incurable disease, too much talking, and thievishness. "In plain English, a man may send away his wife whenever he gets tired ...

— Evolution Of The Japanese, Social And Psychic • Sidney L. Gulick

... idle to speculate; yet no man shall have the hardihood to affirm that it was otherwise. Nor do I seek to extenuate myself, who was in truth no better than my neighbours in most that made us a community of drunkards and forswearers both lewd and abominable. For in that village a depravity that was like madness had come to possess the heads of the people, and no man durst take his stand on honesty or even common decency, for fear he should be set ...

— At a Winter's Fire • Bernard Edward J. Capes

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