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How to use lewd in a sentence

17 example sentences · adjective, noun, verb

Lewd means lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude. Example: “Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.”

Examples of lewd by meaning

verbTo express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.

  • "Well then,” dropping her bathrobe, lewding her lips, “how 'bout some lovee?”2011, Cooper, The Queen's Assassin, page 189
  • Now, the men could just have been watching the unusual APC running on the road, or just lewding at the women.2016, George Saoulidis, The Girl Who Twisted Fate's Arm
  • Each one lusting and lewding themselves - fighting against the spirit of change.2019, Aldious Waite, Grape Juice Enlightenment: Immortal Mind, page 14

More sentences with lewd

  • Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.From the entry midst
  • Overhearing the lewd joke, the dowager gave a scandalized gasp.From the entry scandalize
  • The lewd lesson in question also included Michelangelo's Creation of Adam painting and Botticelli's Birth of Venus.2023 March 27, Brad Emery, “Michelangelo a genius? No, just a filthy little boy”, in The Sydney Morning Herald, archived from the original…. From the entry PornHub
  • It's so lewd," and it's just something like SWSH Promo Hydreigon.2021 May 29, @a_vittata, Twitter. From the entry Poképhiliac
  • Now prurient—I looked that up—it means having itching morbid or lewd and lascivious desires.1967 September, Tom Lehrer, 00:25:50 from the start, in Tom Lehrer: Live In Copenhagen (television production), via DR2. From the entry look up
  • Randol Meadows allegedly made lewd suggestions on Facebook after personal-messaging a fictitious girl created by Chouteau Police Officer Anna Cox.2015 February 16, “Felony Charges: Man comes to Chouteau for sex with fake girl, 15?”, in The Paper, Pryor Creek, Okla.: Pryor Creek…. From the entry personal-message
  • The ancient Romans called the middle finger impudicus, "lewd."1974, Rupert C. Allen, “Part One. Psyche and Symbol in Perlimplín.”, in Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico García Lorca…. From the entry ithyphallic
  • Various lewd contrivances, among them the Chinese ‘hedge-hog,’ ovoid objects, and similar apparatus have all been perversely used as amatory stimulants.1961, Harry E. Wedeck, Dictionary of Aphrodisiacs, New York: The Citadel Press, page 215. From the entry Chinese hedgehog
  • Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship.1922 February 2, James Joyce, Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company […], →OCLC. From the entry withsay
  • When I strictly put Poképhilia accounts and freaks do not interact, I get a freaking Bulbasaur account that is disgusting and lewd.2020 November 24, GreatLxon, Twitter. From the entry Poképhilia
  • If objectionable thick concepts are evaluative but misevaluate, there can be behaviors which are, say, lewd or perverted, but which are not bad.2013, Simon Kirchin, Thick Concepts, page 166. From the entry misevaluate
  • It’s amazing that Plato, Aristotle and Socrates got any philosophizing done at all, what with all the lewd and lascivious behavior going on.2005, Annabelle du Fouet, “The murky world from whence it all came” (chapter 2), in Weather Balloons Make Rotten Sex Toys, Ellora's Cave…. From the entry randy
  • One of Katherine's neighbors called her "a lewd and idle housewife, a common resorter to alehouses & other places where dancing is both by day and by night.”2019, Lynsey McCulloch, Brandon Shaw, The Oxford Handbook of Shakespeare and Dance, page 34. From the entry resorter
  • I must admit to enjoying humor a great deal, and I am guilty of sharing all kinds of stories, some of which are slightly off-color, but far from lewd.2012, Gary L. Fanning, Things I Didn't Learn in Medical School. From the entry off-color

Meaning of lewd

  1. adjective Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
  2. adjective Lay; not clerical.
  3. adjective Uneducated.

Full definition of lewd

Questions about lewd in a sentence

How do you use lewd in a sentence?
Lewd is used as an adjective, noun and verb. For example: “Mildred comes home from work early only to discover her husband, Robert, midst of a lewd affair with their neighbor, Gladys.”
What is a short sentence with lewd?
“Let the lewd with faith and fervour worship.”
What does lewd mean?
Lewd means lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.

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