What's the difference between lascivious and lewd?

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.

Lewd


Definition:

  • (superl.) Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.
  • (superl.) Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious.
  • (superl.) Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.
  • (superl.) Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Unlike Saudi Arabia, where consensual phone relationships between men and women are struck up to circumvent the gender segregation in the country, in Egypt these calls are one-sided and predatory – an outlet for lewd and violating language.
  • (2) Other media reports defined that as a place used for “lewdness, assignation or prostitution.” Norfolk police had arrested Ball and another Richmond man the night before Thanksgiving when they were found together in a parked car in a local park.
  • (3) He was suspended from the BBC for three months in October 2008 after he and Russell Brand left lewd messages on actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone that were broadcast on Brand's Saturday night Radio 2 show.
  • (4) For Fo, the key to understanding Grillo is not in 21st-century Italy but in the 13th century, when storytellers – giullari – roamed Italy, entertaining crowds in piazzas with lewd and ancient tales interwoven with satirical attacks on local potentates.
  • (5) He was dishonourably discharged from the army on a charge of indecency, roamed Europe as a vagrant, thief and homosexual prostitute, then spent a lengthy period in and out of jail in Paris following a dozen or so arrests for larceny, the use of false papers, vagabondage and lewd behaviour.
  • (6) The former Everton striker has instructed his lawyers to handle his dismissal for "unacceptable and offensive behaviour" in the light of leaked footage showing him making lewd comments to a female co-presenter.
  • (7) After Gray was summarily dismissed when new footage came to light that showed him making lewd suggestions to a female co-host , the pressure to take action against Keys, too, increased when yet another clip appeared to show him talking in sexist terms about a former girlfriend of the pundit Jamie Redknapp.
  • (8) His scratching was erroneously interpreted as lewd and indecent behavior.
  • (9) David Cameron has said he is glad that Russell Brand is not voting in his constituency, after the comedian criticised democracy and made lewd comments about the prime minister's sex life.
  • (10) 2008 In October, Ross makes a guest appearance on Russell Brand's Radio 2 show and the pair leave lewd messages on 79-year-old actor Andrew Sachs's answerphone.
  • (11) Donald Trump was more measured in the debate but the damage had already been done after his ‘lewd comments’ video was leaked two days earlier.
  • (12) A similar buildup of complaints was seen when lewd remarks made by Jonathan Ross and Russell Brand on Ross's Radio 2 programme began to circulate online, although in that case not until more than a week after the show's initial transmission.
  • (13) Its isolation no doubt attracted the Roman countess and her lewd husband who held lavish sex parties on the island 40 years ago.
  • (14) The investigators also found that Savile was heard making a lewd remark to a young woman patient at a opening ceremony at Pinderfields Hospital in 2010.
  • (15) Encounters ranged from lewd remarks to inappropriate touching, sexual assault and in three cases rape, said the report.
  • (16) Slipper had sent lewd text messages, and they’d been made public.
  • (17) He was described as "weird", "lewd", "strange", "creepy", "angry", "odd", "disturbing", "eccentric", "a loner" and "unusual" in the course of just one article .
  • (18) In 2011, when Abedin was five months pregnant and working as deputy chief of staff in Clinton’s state department, her husband was forced to stand down from his congressional seat after he inadvertently tweeted a lewd photograph intended for a woman in Seattle to his 45,000 followers.
  • (19) The heroine, Caithleen, is expelled from her convent for writing a tame note implying sexual relations between a nun and a priest, an act she considers so lewd she hesitates to share it with the reader.
  • (20) Contagious moods and narcissistic tendencies The 21-year-old singer, who has undergone something of an image change since 2012, was referring to comments online made about her after some controversially lewd performances.