What's the difference between depraved and lascivious?

Depraved


Definition:

  • (imp. & p. p.) of Deprave

Example Sentences:

  • (1) For here we see the depravity to which man can sink, the barbarity that unfolds when we begin to see our fellow human beings as somehow less than us, less worthy of dignity and life; we see how evil can, for a moment in time, triumph when good people do nothing."
  • (2) The comments emerged in an article about last year’s Manchester Pride event, which was described in the Christian Soldiers newsletter as an “annual parade of depravity”.
  • (3) It’s a sign there is an utter ruthlessness and depravity about this movement which is hideous and sickening and deplorable.
  • (4) The charges range from second-degree assault, a misdemeanor, to second-degree “depraved-heart” murder.
  • (5) People have, of course, always committed depraved and evil acts, but simply to say “It has always happened” does not explain what is distinctive about contemporary terrorism.
  • (6) Shortly before 9pm on Wednesday, her voice cracking with emotion, the prime minister confirmed that what she called the “sick and depraved” attack had been carried out by a single assailant.
  • (7) The fighting has often slid into horror and depravity over the past 22 months.
  • (8) It is impossible to fully fathom the depravity and horror inflicted on innocent people by Nazi terror.” Trump later pledged in the statement “to do everything in my power throughout my presidency, and my life, to ensure that the forces of evil never again defeat the powers of good”.
  • (9) A hymn to the depravity of Edinburgh that balances the noble pursuance of art.
  • (10) "[Eady] in effect ruled that it is perfectly acceptable for the multimillionaire head of a multibillion sport that is followed by countless young people to pay five women £2,500 to take part in acts of unimaginable sexual depravity with him," he said.
  • (11) I used to be so scared when going out in the deserted fields in the dark, because I could be attacked any time by depraved criminals,” she said.
  • (12) The film could be said to mark the moment when the favela – previously a byword for criminality, sickness and moral depravity – started to become “chic”.
  • (13) After nearly a decade of supporting roles in mostly decent movies – you could also add to the list Up In The Air, Paul, Hancock, and State Of Play – Bateman has finally worked his way up to leading-man status – albeit as a straight-seeming guy who gets away with improbable and morally depraved acts.
  • (14) From the depraved dregs of humanity; the glorious blossoming of hope, a tangible act of togetherness; the salvation of pop.
  • (15) During this time 101 patients died (23.2%), with whom severeness of disease as well as the extent of social depravation could be identified as factors influencing mortality.
  • (16) "This is yet another example of the depraved behaviour of the Syrian regime, and why it must go.
  • (17) In contrast to premeditated homicide, a first-degree charge, depraved heart murder alleges the suspect actions were predicated by recklessness – and not caring about that recklessness – rather than intent.
  • (18) Bateman always comes across as the sanest, smartest, straightest guy in the movie even though his characters regularly commit acts of either moral depravity or wild improbability, or both.
  • (19) If the shooting down of the aeroplane was wild, reckless and tragic then the behaviour of the rebels in the aftermath has been depraved.
  • (20) As we’ve seen so tragically – from Brussels to Istanbul to Iraq, where Isil slaughtered children watching soccer – these depraved terrorists still have the ability to inflict horrific violence on the innocent, to the revulsion of the entire world,” he said.

Lascivious


Definition:

  • (a.) Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
  • (a.) Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With New Zealand supporters outnumbered by at least four to one, the typically lascivious, festive mood of any bar in the small hours of Sunday morning is tempered by good-natured but earnest rivalry.
  • (2) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (3) Jill Harth, woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault, breaks silence Read more After Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and Trump spend a few minutes making lascivious comments about actor Arianne Zucker, they meet the woman they were just objectifying.
  • (4) All are taking on the expansive driving genre introduced by Test Drive Unlimited and reworking it for next-gen hardware, but right now it's difficult to tease out the individual quirks amid all that brushed aluminium and lasciviously winking lens flare.
  • (5) I remember the embarrassment, the discomfort, at the lascivious drool coming from his chops, and the physical revulsion at his presumed erection from looking at a girl pretty much the same as me, but without the school uniform and with probably fewer chances in life.
  • (6) Why do magazines such as Esquire and Grazia think it's OK to talk about bums so lasciviously?
  • (7) OK, so New Moon sags somewhat in the middle (a season-changing montage in which Bella appears to mope in a swivel chair for an entire year has become something of a standing joke) but at least it's enlivened by Michael Sheen not so much chewing as lasciviously licking the quasi-Papal scenery.
  • (8) Meanwhile the aforementioned male presenter – who apparently became known for his lascivious behaviour – went on to be given more shows.
  • (9) She likes the sound of lady so much that she repeats it, running it off her tongue with lascivious delight.
  • (10) Mason's stuffed-shirt reticence, allied to his lasciviously clipped vowels, made him ideal for the role.
  • (11) It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual.
  • (12) Crisp said the report shows a soldier of her low rank and "cognitive deficits" could not have been expected to understand the distinction between approved harsh interrogation techniques and the "lewd and lascivious" conduct she was accused of.
  • (13) Gordon also recalled that, one weekend in late July, when the two of them were necking she accused him of being "lascivious".
  • (14) Then, in February, she was charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a child aged 12 to 16.
  • (15) The father, the grandfather, and an uncle confessed to lewd and lascivious misconduct with the children.
  • (16) They are complemented by rumours of his monstrous behaviour, lascivious sexual preferences, indulgence in drugs and alcohol, chain-smoking, bizarre illnesses, love of western rock music, and his unstable mental state.
  • (17) Nowhere swaggers quite like Los Angeles: threatening, provocative, "show me what you got", the city leers lasciviously over a backdrop of Morrison's motels, of money, of murder, of madness.
  • (18) Viewers who might have expected, given the eminence and earlier career of Jonathan Ross and his fellow guests, to hear the scholars quietly debating the Arian controversy, were instead invited – and it was hard to read these words in the Daily Mail – to hear them "speculate lasciviously on air about the taste of a racehorse's semen" .
  • (19) When women rose to speak in the Commons, they'd sometimes be met by a lascivious mime, as men cupped their hands to their chest, and jiggled them.
  • (20) Whatever it is, the phenomenon excites us; this lascivious dance between the narrow spaces occupied by the women the world wishes we were and the women who sometimes wish they were us keeps the tradition of lesbians chasing straight alive and flourishing.