lascivious

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
15
Words With Friends
19
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/
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/ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/ · /-vi.əs/ · /ləˈsɪvi.əs/

Definition of lascivious

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
    “Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke.”
    “The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.”
    “Increasing numbers of English-speaking tourists have made a point of stopping in to snap pictures of themselves by the signpost at the entrance to the village, sometimes striking lascivious poses for social media.”

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Etymology

From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).

Anagrams of lascivious

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