Example Sentences

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He has lewdly mocked his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now secretary of health and human services.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 17, 2025

Whether she’s getting in strange carriages, dancing lewdly, writing secret notes to ambiguous lovers, dressing up like a mime or dressing up like a man, this Emily Dickinson is bold, ambitious, and ready to party.

From Slate • Aug. 26, 2019

Women have looked lewdly upon him and written him letters with singing words, but Pierre being of a simple nature, he answers them briefly and commends them to God.

From Riders of the Silences by Frederick, John

In the which words I dare well report, You are well beloved of all this sort, By your railing here openly At pardons and relics so lewdly.

From A Select Collection of Old English Plays, Volume 1 by Hazlitt, William Carew

Your servants swore falsely when they said these women lived lewdly; your men swore falsely when they said that these women prayed treasonably.

From Privy Seal His Last Venture by Ford, Ford Madox