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How to pronounce lewd in English?

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Type Words
Synonyms obscene, raunchy, salacious
Derivation lewdness


lewd pictures.
Type Words
Synonyms lascivious, libidinous, lustful

Examples of lewd

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They drove a short distance to a residential street and engaged in lewd conduct.
From the telegraph.co.uk
Morrison was acquitted of a lewd and lascivious behavior and drunkenness charge.
From the sacbee.com
The victim received several lewd emails from an unknown sender in December 2010.
From the dailyherald.com
The funny, lewd college girls only wants $50 a throw but dies in a car smashup.
From the time.com
Holmes pleaded guilty to engaging in lewd conduct in a Nov. 30, 2006, incident.
From the ocregister.com
Bill Cranfill will be arraigned Monday on two counts of lewd acts with a child.
From the sacbee.com
He was booked on a misdemeanor count of lewd conduct and released from custody.
From the kentucky.com
The next day at the office, Megan catches Harry making lewd comments about her.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Gastineau is charged with six counts of lewd acts and intercourse with a minor.
From the sacbee.com
More examples
  • Suggestive of or tending to moral looseness; "lewd whisperings of a dirty old man"; "an indecent gesture"; "obscene telephone calls"; "salacious limericks"
  • Lascivious: driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies"
  • (lewdly) in a lewd and obscene manner; "he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely"
  • (lewdness) obscenity: the trait of behaving in an obscene manner
  • "Lascivious" is a word synonymous with lustful or lewd.
  • Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude; Lay; not clerical; Uneducated; Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders; Base, vile, reprehensible
  • (lewdness) The property of being lewd
  • (Lewdness) (Acts 18:14), villany or wickedness, not lewdness in the modern sense of the word. The word "lewd" is from the Saxon, and means properly "ignorant," "unlearned," and hence low, vicious (Acts 17:5).
  • (Lewdness) Behavior that is deemed morally impure or unacceptable in a sexual sense; open and public indecency tending to corrupt the morals of the community; gross or wanton indecency in sexual relations.