lascivious
adjective
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Pronunciation: /ləˈsɪvɪ.əs/ / /-vi.əs/ / /ləˈsɪvi.əs/
adj
Etymology: From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).
- Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
“Sir, I will answer anything. But I beseech you, if't be your pleasure and most wise consent, as partly I find it is, that your fair daughter, at this odd-even and dull watch o'the night, transported with no worse nor better guard but with a knave of common hire, a gondolier, to the gross clasps of a lascivious Moor – if this be known to you, and your allowance, we then have done you bold and saucy wrongs; but if you know not this, my manners tell me we have your wrong rebuke.”
“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.”