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Lascivious
//ləˈsɪviəs// adj
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Adjective
- 1 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."
Adjective
- 1 driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires wordnet
Etymology
From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).
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