lewdness

[ lood-nis ]

/ ˈlud nɪs /

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noun

indecency or obscenity; vulgar sexual character or behavior: The strip club has been shut down repeatedly for lewdness and public sexual acts.

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Origin of lewdness

With the money came the filth, and the contemptuous lewdness you see in the film are based on actual claims in the book.
The Real Wolf of Wall Street: Jordan Belfort’s Vulgar Memoirs|Jimmy So|December 20, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Walker would later be arrested twice for public lewdness in Dallas park bathrooms.
Wingnuts Excerpt—The Hatriots: Armed and Dangerous|John Avlon|March 30, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.
The Prophet Ezekiel|Arno C. Gaebelein
Perhaps this part of the story is only a figure of rhetoric to express the horrible lewdness of Sodom and of Gomorrah.
Instigations|Ezra Pound

They owe their birth to the wild, unbridled lewdness of arbitrary power.
The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. XI. (of 12)|Edmund Burke
And afterwards he gives Lesbonicus a great deal of sober advice, and declaims heartily against Luxury and Lewdness!
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage|Jeremy Collier
If Lewdness will not thrive under such encouragement it must e'en Miscarry!
A Short View of the Immorality, and Profaneness of the English Stage|Jeremy Collier