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Meanings of lascivious in English

Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires.

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Having sexual lust.

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Examples for "salacious"
Examples for "salacious"
1
Thus far the reaction been far less salacious than one might expect.
Wired
2
January tends to be the most salacious month for the Zondo Commission.
The South African
3
The dignitaries are about done with salacious testimony and dramatic revelations, though.
The South African
4
Inside it's all cushions and a salacious selection of sweets and shakes.
The Irish Times
5
I didn't find anything in there that was morally gross or salacious.
Dead ever after
1
But you also have to deal with whiny kids and lecherous adults.
News.com.au
2
For Marion, Paris is a nest of racist and lecherous taxi drivers.
The Guardian
3
He steepled his fingers and pinioned her with a deliberately lecherous gaze.
The viking takes a knight
4
The script was male-defined, and its subtext malign envy and lecherous resentment.
The Guardian
5
If he was old and lecherous, she might say to him, Warm?
Memoirs of a geisha: a novel
1
All right, concupiscent thought, deliberately entertained.
A Canticle For Leibowitz
2
Meanwhile, Daniel's every waking moment is spent in a state of concupiscent readiness should a passing woman need rogering.
The Guardian
3
Mr. Edwards was not a concupiscent man, and besides he never mixed his professional life with his private pleasures.
East of eden
4
He said that our sensitive appetite was divided into two parts: the concupiscent and the irascible....
The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales
5
This king, free will, will dwell in the highest town in the kingdom-thatis to say, in the concupiscent faculty of the soul.
Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the...
Usage of lascivious in English
1
And quite a lover, too, I'm told.' He gave a lascivious snort.
Tetrarch (Well of Echoes)
2
He might degrade Marcolina by mockery and lascivious phrases, full of innuendo.
Casanova's Homecoming
3
Then understanding dawned, and his bloated face creased into a lascivious smile.
The Elephant God
4
Thus, Aphrodite was celebrated with lascivious dances, and Dionysus with drunken revels.
Beacon Lights of History, Volume 01: The Old Pagan Civilizations
5
His belly spilled widely over his belt and his smile was lascivious.
Career of Evil
6
Her movements were disturbingly sexual, her dance provocative in every lascivious movement.
Agents of light and darkness
7
I believe, however, that the real nature of their relationship is darker, even...lascivious.
Rasputin's daughter
8
Being lascivious in private was one thing; doing it in public was different.
Bloody Bones
9
Plain words do not matter; it is lascivious ideas which must be avoided.
Emile
10
I saw him pause and take a lascivious look at my small body.
Mother of the believers: a novel of the birth of islam
11
We must not imitate the songs and tales of ignorant and lascivious people.
The Book of Delight and Other Papers
12
Blind ignorance misleads us thus and delights with the results of lascivious joys.
The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 2
13
Ali had complained about the lascivious looks the workers gave her.
Wanted
14
He usually shadows you, to protect you from my lascivious intents.
The viking takes a knight
15
You told me that it was to escape Loncaster's lascivious intents.
The viking takes a knight
16
Sally and the other soiled doves lingered to cast lascivious glances at William.
The irish devil
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
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