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Lasciviously

Lascivious \Las*civ"i*ous\ (l[a^]s*s[i^]v"[i^]*[u^]s), a. [L. lascivia wantonness, fr. lascivus wanton; cf. Gr. la`stauros lecherous, lh^n to wish, Skr. lash to desire.]

  1. Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
    --Milton.

  2. Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.

    He capers nimbly in a lady's chamber To the lascivious pleasing of a lute.
    --Shak. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Las*civ"i*ous*ness, n.

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lasciviously

adv. In a lascivious manner.

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lasciviously

adv. in a lascivious manner [syn: salaciously]

Usage examples of "lasciviously".

Children of many houses might be startled if they could see the transformation which takes place in their pretty Didi or Lale, whom they know as their nurse, governess and playmate, when she is, in their absence or after their bedtime, ordered to the chamber of one of the young masters, there to dance lasciviously before him, and then to be had, and as a slave.

The girls disrobed at once, pausing in different stages to point proudly to their garish underthings and bantering all the while with the gaunt and dissipated old man with the shabby long white hair and slovenly white unbuttoned shirt who sat cackling lasciviously in a musty blue armchair almost in the exact center of the room and bade Nately and his companions welcome with a mirthful and sardonic formality.

The tape had been reedited so that the camera lingered lasciviously over its appreciation of the horrid spectacle.

His eyes were as predatory as a hawk's, but his smile as cynically and lasciviously cajoling as an ancient satyr's.

Besides, she loved an alto sax, a certain Papi, a mangy horror, he seemed to me, but she only had eyes for him, as he bleated lasciviously, because the saxophone, when it isn’.

Besides, she loved an alto sax, a certain Papi, a mangy horror, he seemed to me, but she only had eyes for him, as he bleated lasciviously, because the saxophone, when it isn't Ornette Coleman's and it's part of a band-and played by the horrendous Papi-is a goatish, guttural instrument, with the voice of, say, a fashion model who's taken to drink and turning tricks.