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laviscious

/ləˈvɪ.ʃəs/

laviscious is the misconstruction of lascivious.

Meaning of lascivious

Adjective

lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)

  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...c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac...
    Synonyms:
    wanton, lewd, lustful

Forms of laviscious

comparativemore laviscious
superlativemost laviscious

Origin of laviscious

Formed by transposition of the "v" and "sc" of the word lascivious, probably influenced by lavish and/or vicious.

Questions about laviscious

What is laviscious the misconstruction of?
Laviscious is the misconstruction of lascivious.
How do you pronounce laviscious?
Laviscious is pronounced /ləˈvɪ.ʃəs/.

Words near laviscious in the dictionary

  1. Lavins
  2. Lavinsky
  3. lavinskyite
  4. Laviolette
  5. Laviolettes
  6. laviscious
  7. lavish
  8. lavished
  9. lavisher
  10. lavishers
  11. lavishes

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Adapted from Wiktionary: laviscious (page history and authors); lascivious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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