lasciviousness
/luh-siv-ee-uhs-nis/US // ləˈsɪv i əs nɪs //
淫荡,淫乱,淫风,淫秽
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n.名词 noun
- 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.
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