lewd
adjective
inclined to, characterized by, or inciting to lust or lechery; lascivious.
lewdly
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a word derived from
lewd.
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
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 Madox Ford
It is said that the prison was used for the confinement of persons who had spoken lewdly of dignitaries about the Court.
From Gossip in a Library by Edmund Gosse
The rather, because the Success he mentions overthrows that frivolous Pretence, of the Poets lying under a Necessity of writing lewdly in order to please the Town.
From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Joseph Wood Krutch
