lewd
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On May 21, the university notified Gradoni of his interim suspension for violating campus policies on disruption and disorderly or lewd conduct, among others.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 31, 2024
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 federal judge’s rulings may indirectly help at least one of those cases since the state “will have a hard time proving that drag queens are lewd on their own,” Israel said.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 20, 2023
"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
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
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
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