lascivious

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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

Forty years after his death, Truman Capote continues to draw audiences in for another lascivious story and another dramatic portrayal in ‘Feud: Capote vs. the Swans.’

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 12, 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

Aside from Wenner’s lascivious, hedonist lifestyle; “Sticky Fingers” shows how rock stars could be elevated or ignored by Rolling Stone because of Wenner’ grudges, jealousies, personal preferences and obsessions.

From New York Times • Nov. 27, 2017

The man who is not an atheist also has full liberty to think many evil things, things fraudulent, lascivious, revengeful and otherwise insane; he also does them at times.

From Angelic Wisdom about Divine Providence by Wunsch, William F.