lasciviousness
unrestrained sexual behavior, or a habitual inclination to such behavior; lustfulness: They celebrated their victory with an orgy of drunken lasciviousness.
a lustful or lewd quality; the quality of arousing sexual desire: She smiled with a hint of lasciviousness in her eyes.
Origin of lasciviousness
1Other words from lasciviousness
- o·ver·las·civ·i·ous·ness, noun
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How to use lasciviousness in a sentence
What of Liszt, with his cheap playacting, his incurable lasciviousness, his plebeian warts?
A Book of Prefaces | H. L. MenckenThey often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.
The Manbos of Mindano | John M. GarvanThey lived simply and disapproved of dancing because it induced lasciviousness and of theater because of its lewdness.
Our Legal Heritage, 5th Ed. | S. A. ReillyHe encouraged, countenanced, and promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there.
The Holy War made by Shaddai upon Diabolus | John BunyanWith a few strokes he could give lasciviousness to a lip, desire to an eye, scorn and contempt often, nobility rarely.
Hogarth | C. Lewis Hind
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