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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Given to or expressing lust; lecherous.
  2. adj. Exciting sexual desires; salacious.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Wanton; lewd; lustful: as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
  2. Tending to excite voluptuous emotions; luxurious.
  3. Synonyms Lecherous, libidinous, licentious, lewd, lustful, salacious, unchaste, incontinent.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Wanton; lewd; lustful.
  2. adj. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires

Etymologies

  1. Middle English, from Late Latin lascīviōsus, from Latin lascīvia, lewdness, playfulness, from lascīvus, lustful, playful; see las- in Indo-European roots.

Examples

  • “You do not participate in lascivious deviant sexual behavior”

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  • “As the narrator cleans the mansion of his dead employer, the reader learns of Kaji's predilection for cloning dead celebrities and engaging in lascivious acts.”

    REVIEW: Voices From Punktown by Jeffrey Thomas

  • “I could undersatnd why the author uses condolence taking the word lascivious into mind.”

    Condolence for the Girl with Pearl Earring

  • “As ridiculous it sounds to knock out Cougars because of its popularization as a term for lascivious middle-aged women, I actually can understand why the board didn't want the term.”

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  • “I’m thinking that a moratorium on all things licentious and lascivious is in order but how does one go about instituting that?”

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  • “May we meet again," answered the Cardassian woman with a smile that could only be called lascivious.”

    Simon & Schuster: Antimatter

  • “Resh soothed them absently, stroking them in a way even human would call lascivious.”

    Simon & Schuster: Dwellers in the Crucible

  • “That is how much money they were willing to accept to give up all the privileges of whiteness: the ability to not suffer from racial profiling, not to be shot to death in a hail of 50 bullets fired at you; not to be called lascivious/wanton/aggressive because of 400+ year-old stereotypes; not to be questioned on your intellect; not to be written off before you even get your foot in the door; not to be followed nor harassed while shopping; not have your voice dismissed or disregarded in a group where you are the only Black; not to have to teach your children to navigate the systemic racism that affects their lives on a daily basis.”

    BEAUTIFUL, ALSO, ARE THE SOULS OF MY BLACK SISTERS

  • “Laurence, [2994] prostibulum faeminae Messalina the empress, that by philters, and such kind of lascivious meats, use all means to [2995] enable themselves: and brag of it in the end, confodi multas enim, occidi vero paucas per ventrem vidisti, as that”

    Anatomy of Melancholy

  • “Others have banned Dionysian rituals such as lascivious costume balls and Princeton's Nude Olympics.”

    The Organization Kid

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  • bilby
    Your are of Cleopatra’s private counsel,
    Of her bed-counsel, her lascivious hours;
    Are conscious of each nightly change she makes,
    And watch her, as Chaldæans do the moon,
    Can tell what signs she passes through, what day.
    - John Dryden, 'All for Love'. Sep 20, 2009

  • wuwu4u A girl of your physical... assets might find herself lured into the lascivious arms of a sexualist


    (324) Sep 13, 2007

‘lascivious’ has been looked up 3801 times, loved by 29 people, added to 160 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 15.