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Their invariably male narrators are often brazenly predatory, even ruttish — a startling disjunction coming from the pen of a man who published three anthologies of women-only fiction and co-edited a pro-reproductive freedom anthology.

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As with electronic dance music and drugs, Ibiza continues to trade on her ruttish behavior.

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The company attack the work with fierce commitment and there are particularly strong performances from Paul Lewis and Jane Haworth's ruttish Capulet parents.

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Bishop Cautin resembles a large, fat, ruttish fox—lascivious and sly eyes, red ears, a mobile and pointed nose, hirsute hands.

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Associated words: fulcrum, purchase, prize, prizing. leverage, n. purchase. levity, n. lightness, buoyancy; gayety, frivolity. lewd, a. unchaste, lustful, licentious, libidinous, lecherous, incontinent, ribald, lascivious, rakish, ruttish, salacious, concupiscent, wanton, lubricous, prurient, pornographic.

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