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lewdness

[ lood-nis ]

noun

  1. 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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With the money came the filth, and the contemptuous lewdness you see in the film are based on actual claims in the book.

Walker would later be arrested twice for public lewdness in Dallas park bathrooms.

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

Perhaps this part of the story is only a figure of rhetoric to express the horrible lewdness of Sodom and of Gomorrah.

They owe their birth to the wild, unbridled lewdness of arbitrary power.

And afterwards he gives Lesbonicus a great deal of sober advice, and declaims heartily against Luxury and Lewdness!

If Lewdness will not thrive under such encouragement it must e'en Miscarry!

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