lascivious

Example Sentences

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But it strikes a false and pandering note, since Tartuffe, as in Molière, has been plainly exposed as an opportunistic, lascivious fraud—and the only one in the play.

From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 17, 2025

The Comstock Act, championed by anti-vice crusader Anthony Comstock and passed in 1873, made it a federal crime to send or receive any material deemed "obscene, lewd or lascivious".

From BBC • Mar. 25, 2024

The paparazzi are portrayed as a lascivious swarm of trench coat-wearing men.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 4, 2021

For instance, Rosemary is often played as a caricature of the archetypal sad, lascivious spinster, but Ms. Skinner finds her desperate pathos.

From New York Times • Mar. 30, 2017

Now, I can show you, through a faithful analysis of the romance, that far from being considered a lascivious work, it should be considered, on the contrary, eminently moral.

From The Public vs. M. Gustave Flaubert by Various