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lewd

lewd : involving or being sexual conduct that is considered indecent or offensive : licentious [convicted of and lascivious assault upon a child "National Law Journal"] lewd·ly adv lewd·ness n ...


Bawd

A person who keeps a house of prostitution or procures women for a lewd purpose a procurer or procuress a lewd person usually applied to a woman...


Prostitute

To offer as a woman to a lewd use to give up to lewdness for hire...


Scortatory

Pertaining to lewdness or fornication lewd...


lascivious

lascivious : reflecting or producing sexual desire or behavior esp. that is considered indecent or obscene [lewd and behavior] ...


obscene

obscene [Middle French, from Latin obscenus obscaenus indecent, lewd] : extremely or deeply offensive according to contemporary community standards of morality or decency see also Roth v. United States in the Important Cases section NOTE: The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled that obscene applies to materials that appeal predominantly to a prurient interest in sexual conduct, depict or describe sexual conduct in a patently offensive way, and lack serious literary, artistic, political, or scientific value. Material or expression deemed obscene by the court is not protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. ...


Bawdily

Obscenely lewdly...


Bawdiness

Obscenity lewdness...


Belswagger

A lewd man also a bully...


Brothel

A house of lewdness or ill fame a house frequented by prostitutes a bawdyhouse...


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