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lascivious
English
Etymology
From Latin lasc?vi?sus, from lasc?via (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /l??s?v??s/
Adjective
lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)
- 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.
Synonyms
- wanton, lewd, lustful
Related terms
Derived terms
- lasciviously
- lasciviousness
Translations
See also
- lecherous
Anagrams
- laviscious
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brutish
English
Etymology
From brute +? -ish
Pronunciation
- (UK) IPA(key): /?b?u?t.??/
- Rhymes: -u?t??
Adjective
brutish (comparative more brutish, superlative most brutish)
- Of, or in the manner of a brute
- Bestial; lacking human sensibility
Quotations
For quotations using this term, see Citations:brutish.
Translations
Further reading
- brutish in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
- brutish in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- brutish at OneLook Dictionary Search
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