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lasciviousness

/luh-siv-ee-uhs-nis/US // ləˈsɪv i əs nɪs //

淫荡,淫乱,淫风,淫秽

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : unrestrained sexual behavior, or a habitual inclination to such behavior; lustfulness: They celebrated their victory with an orgy of drunken lasciviousness.
    • : a lustful or lewd quality; the quality of arousing sexual desire: She smiled with a hint of lasciviousness in her eyes.

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Examples

  • What of Liszt, with his cheap playacting, his incurable lasciviousness, his plebeian warts?

  • They often contain an element of what we would call lasciviousness, but to the Manbo they merely represent ordinary natural acts.

  • They lived simply and disapproved of dancing because it induced lasciviousness and of theater because of its lewdness.

  • He encouraged, countenanced, and promoted lasciviousness, and all ungodliness there.

  • With a few strokes he could give lasciviousness to a lip, desire to an eye, scorn and contempt often, nobility rarely.