lascivious

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HIs vocal performance as the man-eating plant in 1986's Little Shop of Horrors revealed a Stubbs who could be seductive, lascivious, and menacing, and he also found a latter-day sideline doing voices for videogames.

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

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  • He made other edicts against divers Pagan ceremonies, which were lascivious or dishonest, and suffered not the Bonzas to set a foot within his palace. —  The Works of John Dryden, Volume XVI.
  • HIs vocal performance as the man-eating plant in 1986's Little Shop of Horrors revealed a Stubbs who could be seductive, lascivious, and menacing, and he also found a latter-day sideline doing voices for videogames. —  Entertainment Weekly's PopWatch
  • As the Duke grows more distant and lascivious, the Duchess finds ways to keep herself from shriveling into a prune. —  Movie City News
  • But Oldham's version is also leavened with the element of surprise -- lascivious songs that would make R. Kelly blush, and maverick moves like covering the output of his former band with Nashville session musicians on "Sings Greatest Palace Music."
  • Then, taking the music off the stand and throwing it on the floor, she began to play a Spanish dance, lascivious, alluring, as full of the body as the music of Elgar is full of the soul. —  Bella Donna A Novel
 

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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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