lewdly
Example Sentences
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He has lewdly mocked his cousin Robert F. Kennedy Jr., now secretary of health and human services.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 17, 2025
Whether she’s getting in strange carriages, dancing lewdly, writing secret notes to ambiguous lovers, dressing up like a mime or dressing up like a man, this Emily Dickinson is bold, ambitious, and ready to party.
From Slate ● Aug. 26, 2019
Women have looked lewdly upon him and written him letters with singing words, but Pierre being of a simple nature, he answers them briefly and commends them to God.
From Riders of the Silences by John Frederick
The rather, because the Success he mentions overthrows that frivolous Pretence, of the Poets lying under a Necessity of writing lewdly in order to please the Town.
From Essays on the Stage Preface to the Campaigners (1689) and Preface to the Translation of Bossuet's Maxims and Reflections on Plays (1699) by Joseph Wood Krutch
When we act gluttonously, when we act lewdly, when we act rashly, filthily, inconsiderately, to what have we declined?
From A Selection from the Discourses of Epictetus with the Encheiridion by Epictetus
