lascivious
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“Julie has turned that company around,” said Angelina Fiordellisi, who heads the Cherry Lane Theater, which partnered with the Women’s Project on its current production, Sheila Callaghan’s "Lascivious Something."
From New York Times • May 22, 2010
Lascivious, preposterous, acutely human: that's Shakespeare's fat knight, set to music by Verdi.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lascivious Edward,—and thou perjur'd George,— And thou misshapen Dick,—I tell ye all, I am your better, traitors as ye are;— And thou usurp'st my father's right and mine.
From King Henry VI, Part 3 by Shakespeare, William
Abdelazer; or, the Moor's Revenge is an alteration of the robustious _Lust's Dominion; or, the Lascivious Queen, printed 12mo, 1657, and then attributed to Marlowe, who was certainly not the author.
From The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume II by Summers, Montague
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