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UK
/lɐsˈɪvɪəs/
]
[ US /ɫəˈsɪviəs/ ]
[ US /ɫəˈsɪviəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
libidinous orgies
How To Use lascivious In A Sentence
- Monasteries, breaking the Lawes of obedience, and being addicted to pleasures of the flesh, are become lascivious and dissolute, making the world beleeve, that whatsoever is convenient for other women, is no way unbeseeming them, as thinking in that manner to escape. The Decameron
- What people most long for in ogling the screen is to witness some torrid lascivious scene: the incentives to gaze are supremely lubricious.
- His swearing, lasciviousness and blackly comedic distortion of the word ‘spastic’ was nothing that most British youths haven't heard or employed themselves.
- She had seen glances hot with wine and lust, claspings of hands, loosened cyclas, and more lascivious reclinings. The Lion's Brood
- They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manóbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts. The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir
- 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries: Commentary on the Whole Bible Volume VI (Acts to Revelation)
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- For know that I am proud and revengeful and lascivious, and I prate even as thou.
- It is well known that polygamical love is divided among several, and divided love is not conjugial love, which cannot be divided from one of the sex; hence the former love is lascivious, and polygamy is lasciviousness. The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love
- This is paired with Missy's wantonly lascivious delivery and interplay with her vocal partners.