lasciviousness
Americannoun
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unrestrained sexual behavior, or a habitual inclination to such behavior; lustfulness.
They celebrated their victory with an orgy of drunken lasciviousness.
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a lustful or lewd quality; the quality of arousing sexual desire.
She smiled with a hint of lasciviousness in her eyes.
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James laughed when comedian Dave Chappelle mocked him as a high priest of lost talent and lasciviousness; he thought Chappelle should play him in the movie of his life.
From Time Magazine Archive
His spirit, wayward, melancholy, and splendid, belonged to the Renaissance�the English Renaissance, in which the conflicting currents of ambition, learning, religion, and lasciviousness were so subtly intervolved.
From Time Magazine Archive
One of the handful of nonnegotiable church reforms demanded by early Lutherans was marriage for clergy as a means of ending hypocrisy and lasciviousness on the part of priests.
From Time Magazine Archive
I detected no hint of lasciviousness in Bill’s voice or manner, certainly no element of pimping; no, he was simply trying to protect me.
From "Black Like Me" by John Howard Griffin
According to him, even "grace" may become "lasciviousness."
From Love's Final Victory by Horatio
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