lascivious

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

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  • With a gleam in his eye, he predicted we weren't "out of the woods": the dreams would become more lascivious, and the line between dream and waking reality would be blurred past recognition. —  Incubus
  • To Michelis 'surprise -- for outside the sciences he had almost no aesthetic sense -- Liu regarded these lascivious, immobile scenes with a kind of withdrawn, grave approval. —  A Case Of Conscience
  • "The rest is smirky lascivious, but otherwise it doesn't mean anything to me." —  Analog Science Fiction and Fact
  • When you meet her she seems like a shy Catholic girl fresh out of the convent, while her stage act is an outrageous burlesque of bumps and grinds and saucy lyrics delivered in the kind of lascivious Mae West drawl that wouldn't seem out of place on a predatory hooker. —  Broken Music, A Memoir
  • "This conversation is bordering on the lascivious, Mr. Cavanaugh. —  Adam's Fall
 

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lewd ·  lustful ·  unchaste ·  immodest ·  indecent ·  licentious ·  salacious ·  bawdy ·  libidinous ·  lecherous ·  immoral ·  sensual
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Etymologies (2)

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

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  1. An altered form, after lascivient or L. lascivia, wantonness, of lascivous: see lascivous.
 

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/læˈsɪvɪəs/
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