What is another word for lewd?

Pronunciation: [lˈuːd] (IPA)

Lewd is a word that is used to describe inappropriate or vulgar behavior. There are many synonyms for lewd that can be used to describe a person or their behavior, such as obscene, indecent, vulgar, risque, suggestive, bawdy, and ribald. All of these synonyms have a similar meaning to lewd, but each one emphasizes a different aspect of the behavior. For example, obscene emphasizes the offensiveness of the behavior, bawdy emphasizes the humor of the behavior, and suggestive emphasizes the subtle nature of the behavior. Regardless of which synonym is used, they all convey the same idea that the behavior is inappropriate and offensive.

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What are the opposite words for lewd?

Lewd is an adjective that describes something that is vulgar, obscene or offensive. To describe something that is not lewd, we can use antonyms like decent, chaste, virtuous, pure or moral. Decent refers to something that is appropriate and respectable, chaste means pure and abstaining from sensual pleasures, virtuous refers to moral excellence, pure means free from impurities, and moral indicates something within the bounds of accepted standards of behavior. By using these antonyms, we can describe something that is opposite to lewd and acceptable in society. It is essential to use appropriate language to maintain decency in communication.

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Usage examples for Lewd

Seizing him by the shoulder as he had seized his wife, clutching him like a wild beast, and thrusting his great face to within an inch of that of the unhappy clergyman, Jasper Musk spat lewd names, and foul insult, and wanton blasphemy, until breath failed him.
"Peccavi"
E. W. Hornung
They grew noisier and the women began to sing lewd songs.
"Witch-Doctors"
Charles Beadle
But the more you try that, the more apt you will be to come to my conclusion, that late marriage is a crime against the race; the more aware you will be of the danger, either that his boy friends may break him down, or that some lewd woman may come to his bedroom in the night-time.
"The Book of Life: Vol. I Mind and Body; Vol. II Love and Society"
Upton Sinclair

Famous quotes with Lewd

  • I want one place I can go that is not going to be lewd, and I'm not sure there is anything left.
    Matt Drudge
  • I'm from New York, I make kind of somewhat maybe lewd, at times - maybe some would say dirty - jokes. But in jest.
    Sarah Michelle Gellar
  • The insect looked at Jurgen, and its pincers rose erect in horror.— You are offensive,… the bug replied, — because this page has a sword which I chose to say is not a sword. You are lewd because that page has a lance which I prefer to think is not a lance. You are lascivious because yonder page has a staff which I elect to declare is not a staff. And finally, you are indecent for reasons of which a description would be objectionable to me, and which therefore I must decline to reveal to anybody.…
    James Branch Cabell
  • Yes, there was Edgar, whom I starved and hunted until I was tired of it: then I chased him up a back alley one night, and knocked out those annoying brains of his. And there was Walt, whom I chivvied and battered from place to place, and made a paralytic of him: and him, too, I labelled offensive and lewd and lascivious and indecent. Then later there was Mark, whom I frightened into disguising himself in a clown's suit, so that nobody might suspect him to be a maker of literature: indeed, I frightened him so that he hid away the greater part of what he had made until after he was dead, and I could not get at him. That was a disgusting trick to play on me, I consider.
    James Branch Cabell
  • In each of the cathedral churches there was a bishop, or an archbishop of fools, elected; and in the churches immediately dependent upon the papal see a pope of fools. These mock pontiffs had usually a proper suit of ecclesiastics who attended upon them, and assisted at the divine service, most of them attired in ridiculous dresses resembling pantomimical players and buffoons; they were accompanied by large crowds of the laity, some being disguised with masks of a monstrous fashion, and others having their faces smutted; in one instance to frighten the beholders, and in the other to excite their laughter: and some, again, assuming the habits of females, practised all the wanton airs of the loosest and most abandoned of the sex. During the divine service this motley crowd were not contended with singing of indecent songs in the choir, but some of them ate, and drank, and played at dice upon the altar, by the side of the priest who celebrated the mass. After the service they put filth into the censers, and ran about the church, leaping, dancing, laughing, singing, breaking obscene jests, and exposing themselves in the most unseemly attitudes with shameless impudence. Another part of these ridiculous ceremonies was, to shave the precentor of fools upon a stage erected before the church, in the presence of the populace; and during the operation, he amused them with lewd and vulgar discourses, accompanied by actions equally reprehensible. The bishop, or the pope of fools, performed the divine service habited in the pontifical garments, and gave his benediction to the people before they quitted the church. He was afterwards seated in an open carriage, and drawn about to the different parts of the town, attended by a large train of ecclesiastics and laymen promiscuously mingled together; and many of the most profligate of the latter assumed clerical habits in order to give their impious fooleries the greater effect; they had also with them carts filled with ordure, which they threw occasionally upon the populace assembled to see the procession. These spectacles were always exhibited at Christmas-time, or near to it, but not confined to one particular day.
    Joseph Strutt

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