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  • adjective comparative form of lewd: more lewd

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Examples

  • Almost every mother of daughters has come across them: the ruder, lewder language even young girls pick up; the pole-grinding pop heroines; the peer pressure to show you're not "frigid" even before you've got to puberty; the thongs and piercings; the playground talk about shaving down below.

    Bring back the F-word if you want to do more than worry about girls | Jackie Ashley 2011

  • Almost every mother of daughters has come across them: the ruder, lewder language even young girls pick up; the pole-grinding pop heroines; the peer pressure to show you're not "frigid" even before you've got to puberty; the thongs and piercings; the playground talk about shaving down below.

    Bring back the F-word if you want to do more than worry about girls | Jackie Ashley 2011

  • I was invited to banquets where the entertainments tended to be vulgar: cockfights, quail fights, dog fights, drinking contests, and gambling; the poems were lewder; the singers and dancers performed Antics rather than Epics.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I was invited to banquets where the entertainments tended to be vulgar: cockfights, quail fights, dog fights, drinking contests, and gambling; the poems were lewder; the singers and dancers performed Antics rather than Epics.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • I was invited to banquets where the entertainments tended to be vulgar: cockfights, quail fights, dog fights, drinking contests, and gambling; the poems were lewder; the singers and dancers performed Antics rather than Epics.

    Wildfire Sarah Micklem 2009

  • Preparing to open the venue, Mr. Thomas renamed it a "music hall" instead of the lewder-sounding "cabaret" on the advice of local authorities.

    In Morocco, a French Dancer Finds That Life Is Not a Cabaret 2008

  • Prayers, tears, and the most abject submission, are but fuel to his pride: wagering perhaps with lewd companions, and, not improbably, with lewder women, upon instances which he boast of to them of your patient sufferings, and broken spirit, and bringing them home to witness both.

    Clarissa Harlowe 2006

  • As you know, I've no false modesty about my ability to arouse base passion in the lewder sort of female (and some not so lewd, neither, until I taught 'em how), but I've never deluded myself that I'm the kind who inspires deep lasting affection — except in Elspeth, thank God, but she's an emotional half-wit.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • As you know, I've no false modesty about my ability to arouse base passion in the lewder sort of female (and some not so lewd, neither, until I taught 'em how), but I've never deluded myself that I'm the kind who inspires deep lasting affection - except in Elspeth, thank God, but she's an emotional half-wit.

    Flashman and the Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

  • As you know, I've no false modesty about my ability to arouse base passion in the lewder sort of female (and some not so lewd, neither, until I taught 'em how), but I've never deluded myself that I'm the kind who inspires deep lasting affection - except in Elspeth, thank God, but she's an emotional half-wit.

    Flashman And The Dragon Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1985

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