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Lewdly

Lewd \Lewd\ (l[=u]d), a. [Compar. Lewder (-[~e]r); superl. Lewdest.] [ OE. lewed, lewd, lay, ignorant, vile, AS. l[=ae]wed laical, belonging to the laity.]

  1. Not clerical; laic; laical; hence, unlearned; simple.

    For if a priest be foul, on whom we trust, No wonder is a lewed man to rust.
    --Chaucer.

    So these great clerks their little wisdom show To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they.
    --Sir. J. Davies.

  2. Belonging to the lower classes, or the rabble; idle and lawless; bad; vicious. [Archaic]
    --Chaucer.

    But the Jews, which believed not, . . . took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, . . . and assaulted the house of Jason.
    --Acts xvii. 5.

    Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.
    --Southey.

  3. Given to the promiscuous indulgence of lust; dissolute; lustful; libidinous.
    --Dryden.

  4. Suiting, or proceeding from, lustfulness; involving unlawful sexual desire; as, lewd thoughts, conduct, or language.

    Syn: Lustful; libidinous; licentious; profligate; dissolute; sensual; unchaste; impure; lascivious; lecherous; rakish; debauched. -- Lewd"ly, adv. -- Lewd"ness, n.

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lewdly

adv. In a lewd manner.

WordNet
lewdly

adv. in a lewd and obscene manner; "he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely" [syn: obscenely]

Usage examples of "lewdly".

As soon as she had done so, Maude strapped her wrists to the front legs of the apparatus, whilst Alice made her slim ankles fast to the other legs, thus spread-eagling her startlingly jutting, white, twitching bottom out and up in the most lascivious way, so that the secret ambery crease between the naked hillocks was lewdly distended and every portion of her private anatomy exposed not only to the gaze of her executioner but also to the searching tips of the slender withes of the fresh new rod which Maude now handed her chum with sparkling eyes.

Before he could do so, a lewdly garbed young woman came flouncing into the parlor, streaming a brightly hued feather boa out behind her.

All which my daies I haue not lewdly spent,Nor spilt the blossome of my tender yearesIn ydlesse, but as was conuenient,Haue trayned bene with many noble feresIn gentle thewes, and such like seemely leres.

The only reality was the searing fire that burned deep in her scorched stomach, the flames licking out between her legs, crying to be drowned by the tormenting monster slithering lewdly between their wetness.

I believed he must be alluding -- with a tisk of the tongue, as it were -- to the behavior of his wife, who now besides waving her brittle posteriors was nibbling a memorandum-pad between bleats, and winking lewdly.

He rubbed his forehead harshly with his knuckles, like a man in an alcoholic stupor, and snickered lewdly.

She was still la petite Caprice, if not so little: an inch or two taller and fuller in her tight-bodiced crimson satin that clung like a skin from bare shoulders to wasp waist and then descended to her feet in the fashionable rippling pleats of the time - it hadn't occurred to me that female politicals might dress like evening fashion-plates even when they were in the field, so to speak, and I sat lewdly agog.