lewd
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Host Mariska Hargitay was refreshingly lewd and charmingly self-deprecating as the first female host of the Emmys in 15 years.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 15, 2026
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
LCB officials also said they would not issue formal lewd conduct citations or violations to the LGBTQ+ clubs and bars inspected last weekend.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 1, 2024
"Even if they were, it's not grounds for removing a liquor license. Drag is not lewd, nor is it a public nuisance as the state claims."
From Salon ● Mar. 17, 2023
“Because you’re horrible. You’re loud and lewd and...treacherous. Brum warned us that Grisha could be charming.”
From "Six of Crows" by Leigh Bardugo
This boke is called þe boke of algorym, or Augrym after lewder vse.
From The Earliest Arithmetics in English by Robert Steele
This boke is called the boke of algorim or augrym after lewder use.
From The Hindu-Arabic Numerals by Louis Charles Karpinski
Who's the lewdest, crudest, most popular person on Comedy Central?
From Time ● Aug. 11, 2010
Wel, sayd Arthur, thou hast said thy message, ye whiche is ye most vylaynous and lewdest message that ever man herd sent unto a kynge.
From At the Sign of the Barber's Pole Studies In Hirsute History by William Andrews
If there is any Thing like this in our Language from the lewdest of our Stage-Writers, I give them over to Mr Collier and the Reformers to do with them what they please.
From Reflections on Dr. Swift's Letter to Harley (1712) and The British Academy (1712) by Louis A. Landa
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