Word of the Day:
lascivious
What It Means
Lascivious in Context
“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.”
Did You Know?
From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).
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