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
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 Edmund Gosse
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 John Milton
