lewdness

Example Sentences

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When school staff alerted the cops of the human feces they had been finding, they set up surveillance and were able to catch Tramaglini, who they charged with lewdness, littering, and defecating in public.

From Golf Digest • May 3, 2018

Afghan Star, a version of Pop Idol, is the most popular show on television in Afghanistan, but it's been condemned by the Taliban for its "lewdness" and "immorality".

From BBC • Apr. 29, 2016

He has pleaded not guilty to 17 felonies, also including lewdness and conspiracy to destroy evidence.

From Washington Times • Jan. 7, 2016

In 2005, a federal jury found that the police regularly conducted sweeps “for the crime of public lewdness, without regard to probable cause,” as a federal court decision summarized the result.

From New York Times • Oct. 7, 2014

A thirteenth-century writer says of the Mongol women that they are "chaste, and nothing is heard amongst them of lewdness, but some of the expressions they use in joking are very shameful and coarse."

From Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals by Sumner, William Graham