(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.
Lust
Definition:
(n.) Pleasure.
(n.) Inclination; desire.
(n.) Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
(n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
(n.) Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
(n.) To list; to like.
(n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(2) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(3) One is reminded of the fate of Iggy Pop’s album Lust for Life , also released in 1977, which looked all set to be his first successful US release, except that it arrived two weeks after the death of Elvis Presley.
(4) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
(5) The pioneering contributions of Dr. Lee B. Lusted in the study of diagnostic imaging efficacy are highlighted.
(6) He said : The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seeming delightful blood-lust the aerial weapons team happened to have.
(7) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
(8) In fact he is practically in residence: his new play, The Red Lion , opened last month; when we meet he is in final rehearsals for Three Days in the Country , a version of Ivan Turgenev’s study of love and lust, thwarted idealism and slow-fizzling marital despair.
(9) There are good reasons why investors are lusting for gold: Brexit, the Italian banking crisis, Chinese uncertainty, spiralling global debt and Donald Trump.
(10) The original article on the subject by Lee Lusted, describing the "state of the art" 20 years ago, is reviewed.
(11) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(12) Lack of factual knowledge, parental guidance and lust for material gains are some of the factors the girls felt may be responsible for the upsurge in adolescent sexual behaviour.
(13) Perhaps not surprisingly, given our cultural addiction to ever-longer working days, one of the few rising trends since the Observer surveys of 2002 and 2008 concerns the fact that a greater number of people are finding lust (and maybe love) in the workplace – often literally – and not only that, one in five people say they would sleep with someone to further their career.
(14) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
(15) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
(16) In Magic Mike , he deconstructed his own reputation as Cinema’s One Truly Objectified Male, whipping up the waves of female lust that buffeted the stage of the Xquisite like a conductor.
(17) The onus cannot be on women and girls to try to control male lust.
(18) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
(19) And, when it comes to football, there's that schoolkids versus the teachers syndrome Perfumo talks of, and which he describes in his book in terms of the old Oedipal thing of children lusting to annihilate their parents.
(20) Odenigbo infuriates Olanna by justifying his infidelity in an Igbo phrase, "self-assured enough to call what he had done a brief rash lust ": the translation of that formula into English shows it up.