lewdness
Example Sentences
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"There was never any lewdness or disrespect or weirdness that you're trying to imply," De Niro said, before looking at her and exclaiming: "Shame on you, Chase Robinson!"
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2023
When school staff alerted the cops of the human feces they had been finding, they set up surveillance and were able to catch Tramaglini, who they charged with lewdness, littering, and defecating in public.
From Golf Digest ● May 3, 2018
He has pleaded not guilty to 17 felonies, also including lewdness and conspiracy to destroy evidence.
From Washington Times ● Jan. 7, 2016
In 2005, a federal jury found that the police regularly conducted sweeps “for the crime of public lewdness, without regard to probable cause,” as a federal court decision summarized the result.
From New York Times ● Oct. 7, 2014
Thus their false moderation, and their affected purity, by the natural operation of everything false and everything affected, becomes pander and bawd to the unbridled debauchery and licentious lewdness of usury and extortion.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 03 (of 12) by Edmund Burke
