What's the difference between lascivious and vulgar?

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.

Vulgar


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the mass, or multitude, of people; common; general; ordinary; public; hence, in general use; vernacular.
  • (a.) Belonging or relating to the common people, as distinguished from the cultivated or educated; pertaining to common life; plebeian; not select or distinguished; hence, sometimes, of little or no value.
  • (a.) Hence, lacking cultivation or refinement; rustic; boorish; also, offensive to good taste or refined feelings; low; coarse; mean; base; as, vulgar men, minds, language, or manners.
  • (n.) One of the common people; a vulgar person.
  • (n.) The vernacular, or common language.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Water stress inhibits the gibberellic acid (GA(3))-induced synthesis of alpha-amylase in aleurone layers of barley (Hordeum vulgare L.).
  • (2) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Britain needs to talk about the R-word: racism It is also a wakeup call to those who recognise racism only when it is played out like a scene from Django Unchained , those who think that racism has to be some vulgar incident perpetrated only by the backward, ignorant and poorly educated, those who believe that racism has to be an act, rather than a complicated and intangible framework that sets up obstacles.
  • (3) Chinese hamster cells and normal human skin fibroblasts were treated with extracts from Salmonella typhimurium or Hordeum vulgare (barley) containing a crude mutagenic metabolite, as well as with synthetically produced azidoalanine.
  • (4) The model agrees with those proposed for TMV "vulgare" RNA and confirms their general validity for the tobamoviruses.
  • (5) Perhaps the recession will finally put the kibosh on all this vulgar Jimmy Choo-ing and Vera Wang-ing.
  • (6) In the present study we compare isoenzymes 1 and 2 from Sinapis alba and Hordeum vulgare on the basis of antigenic cross-reactivity, tryptic peptides, and amino acid composition.
  • (7) Three lectins, from Canavalia ensiformis (concanavalin), Triticum vulgare (wheat germ A), and Phytolacca americana (pokeweed [PWM]), were found to react with fungal pathogens commonly encountered in nosocomial infections.
  • (8) 'He's vulgar – but honest': Filipinos on Duterte's first 100 days in office Read more The inquiry is being led by senator Leila de Lima, a staunch critic of Duterte’s anti-drug campaign that has left more than 3,000 suspected drug users and dealers dead since he assumed the presidency in June .
  • (9) for which Taylor won her second Oscar, playing the bitter, 52-year-old, vulgar wife of a self-loathing professor (Burton).
  • (10) The chaddi [underwear] symbolises vulgarity, something Muthalik's men indulged in when they molested the girls in Mangalore, and pink adds shock value.
  • (11) Ideally they should also possess the sort of clipped tones that make vulgarities sound like Virgil and the sort of wardrobe that dresses up deviousness as a gentleman's sport.
  • (12) In his letter to the BBC, the ambassador wrote: "The presenters of the programme resorted to outrageous, vulgar and inexcusable insults to stir bigoted feelings against the Mexican people, their culture as well as their official representative in the United Kingdom.
  • (13) Biochemical analyses of the dorsal integument of the isopod, Armadillidium vulgare, revealed that sepiapterin, biopterin, pterin, isoxanthopterin and uric acid accumulated in the yellow-colored chromatophores which are distinguishable from ommochrome chromatophores.
  • (14) The prank involved a man saying a vulgar phrase on air while Shauna Hunt, a reporter with Toronto-based television news channel CityNews, interviewed fans after a soccer match.
  • (15) With the exception of Verrucae vulgares and plantares the epidemiology of these types of warts displays significantly different patterns.
  • (16) The geranyl and linalyl precursors were shown to be mutually competitive substrates (inhibitors) of the relevant cyclization enzymes isolated from Salvia officinalis (sage) and Tanacetum vulgare (tansy) by the mixed substrate analysis method, demonstrating that isomerization and cyclization take place at the same active site.
  • (17) It’s like that sick, sinking feeling you get when you’re walking down the street minding your own business and some guy yells out vulgar words about your body.
  • (18) You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books.
  • (19) Across Manhattan, authors, editors and agents alike work on computer, and make full use of email as a means of avoiding embarrassing and vulgar conversations.
  • (20) Too much money is involved, too much sex, too many vulgarly inflated egos, too much that is peripheral to the game.