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

This is servitude, To serve the unwise, or him who hath rebelled Against his worthier, as thine now serve thee, Thyself not free, but to thyself enthralled; Yet lewdly darest our ministring upbraid.

From Paradise Lost by Milton, John

It is said that the prison was used for the confinement of persons who had spoken lewdly of dignitaries about the Court.

From Gossip in a Library by Gosse, Edmund

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 Krutch, Joseph Wood