lewd
pronunciation
How to pronounce lewd in British English:
UK [lu:d]
How to pronounce lewd in American English:
US [lud]
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- Adjective:
- suggestive of or tending to moral looseness
- driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
Word Origin
- lewd (adj.)
- Old English læwede "nonclerical," of uncertain origin but probably ultimately from Vulgar Latin *laigo-, from Latin laicus (see lay (adj.)). Sense of "unlettered, uneducated" (early 13c.) descended to "coarse, vile, lustful" by late 14c. Related: Lewdly; lewdness.
Example
- 1. Us secret service agents in colombia to protect the american president engage in lewd behavior .
- 2. The new year kisses led to six men being charged with lewd conduct .
- 3. Unwanted handsy overtures and other lewd acts on tokyo 's sardine-pack subway trains is not a new phenomenon .
- 4. The clips it missed had confusable sound , such as background music , causing the model to misclassify some lewd clips .
- 5. After a week of denials , anthony weiner , a combative democratic congressman from new york , admitted that he had sent a photograph of himself in his underpants to a young woman online and had had lewd exchanges with at least six other women .