(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.
Promiscuous
Definition:
(a.) Consisting of individuals united in a body or mass without order; mingled; confused; undistinguished; as, a promiscuous crowd or mass.
(a.) Distributed or applied without order or discrimination; not restricted to an individual; common; indiscriminate; as, promiscuous love or intercourse.
Example Sentences:
(1) In addition to the well established contra-indications to use, a past history of pelvic inflammatory disease or ectopic pregnancy, promiscuity, nulliparity and age less than 25 are now considered relative contraindications.
(2) While a clearcut relationship cannot be established between heavy metal music and destructive behavior, evidence shows that such music promotes and supports patterns of drug abuse, promiscuous sexual activity, and violence.
(3) The analysis of specific clones indicates that both peptides are very promiscuous in their capacity to bind to class II.
(4) The DNA primase gene of the promiscuous IncP-1 conjugative plasmid RP1, encoding two polypeptides of 118 and 80 kDa, was inserted into the transposon Tn5 in Escherichia coli.
(5) The HIV-infected mother was sexually promiscuous and a drug addict.
(6) In the U.S. and Europe, AIDS correlates to 95% with risk factors, such as about 8 years of promiscuous male homosexuality, intravenous drug use, or hemophilia.
(7) Both promiscuous and nonpromiscuous male homosexuals should refrain from giving blood.
(8) The promiscuous action of IE protein has led to the suggestion that it functions by an unusual mechanism.
(9) The active transport mechanism for mIBG uptake appears rather promiscuous for biogenic amines, as dopamine, tyramine and nor-adrenaline were highly efficient at blocking mIBG entry to the cell.
(10) When I was nine or 10 I leapt directly from Doctor Dolittle to Dr No, leaving behind all those stupid talking animals and free-falling into a far naughtier realm of suavely promiscuous government assassins, hot shell-diving beauties and villains with metal hands and messianic plans for humanity.
(11) In a chart listing their "vulnerabilities", two of the six are identified as being involved in "online promiscuity".
(12) Herpetiform ulceration of the penis in a person who has had promiscuous sexual contact is not necessarily herpes progenitalis, since varicella may also involve the penis.
(13) Rather than homosexual intercourse (U.S.) and syringe sharing by drug abusers (Italy), most African cases seem to be transmitted by heterosexual promiscuous contacts and, to a lesser extent, by blood derivates and recycled syringes.
(14) At the emergency station of the Surgical Department of the University Hospital in Zurich, 90% of the group with high risk of infection with the human immunodeficiency virus are intravenous drug abusers and 10% are promiscuous homosexuals.
(15) Kaposi's sarcoma as a complication of AIDS occurred mainly in homosexuals (17 of 42 homosexuals, one of 17 drug abusers, one of five heterosexually promiscuous patients, and one of six patients who had previously received transfusions).
(16) During adolescence the physiological transformation zone of the cervix in the virgin undergoes limited change when compared to that of girls who are sexually promiscuous; the latter often show large areas of metaplastic squamous epithelium and the development of an atypical transformation zone.
(17) There were significant differences between the sexes (P less than 0.01) in drug use (alcohol, cannabis), use of condoms, promiscuity and with respect to discussion of AIDS.
(18) To make up the control group, 180 non-tattooed subjects from the remaining 2,264, who neither engaged in promiscuous sexual activity nor were intravenous drug abusers, were matched from household registry reports by age, sex, education, occupation, and geographic origin from Mainland China, where their parents were born.
(19) The CAT system illustrates the extent of variation possible for an accessory gene product which is required infrequently and which is encoded by multicopy and promiscuous vectors which can cross taxonomic boundaries.
(20) Fibres taken from erector spinae (Es), plantaris (Plt), diaphragm (Dia) and soleus (Sol) muscles of adult rabbits were pretyped as fast-twitch-glycolytic (FG), fast-twitch-oxidative-glycolytic (FOG), slow-twitch-oxidative (SO) or promiscuous (P) using a combination of histochemical staining and PAGE.