lascivious
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las·civ·i·ous
(lə-sĭv'ē-əs) 
adj.
lasciviousness las·civ'i·ous·ness n.
adj.
- Given to or expressing lust; lecherous.
- Exciting sexual desires; salacious.
[Middle English, from Late Latin lascīviōsus, from Latin lascīvia, lewdness, playfulness, from lascīvus, lustful, playful.]
lasciviously las·civ'i·ous·ly adv.lasciviousness las·civ'i·ous·ness n.
Roget's Thesaurus:
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lascivious
adjective
- Feeling or devoted to sexual love or desire: amative, amorous, concupiscent, erotic, lecherous, lewd, libidinous, lustful, lusty, passionate, prurient, sexy. See sex/asexual.
- Of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire: amatory, amorous, aphrodisiac, erotic, salacious, sexual, sexy. See sex/asexual.
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lascivious
adj
Definition: sexually aroused
Antonyms: ascetic, chaste, decent, moral
West's Encyclopedia of American Law:
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Lasciviousness
This entry contains information applicable to United States law only.
Lewdness; indecency; obscenity; behavior that tends to deprave the morals in regard to sexual relations.
The statutory offense of lascivious cohabitation is committed by two individuals who live together as husband and wife and engage in sexual relations without the sanction of marriage.
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IN BRIEF: Lustful.
Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be.
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categories related to 'lascivious'
- Vulgar, Rude, Degenerate, or Wild
- Sexuality and Libido - lascivious: (adj) lustful, lewd
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"Lascivious" is a word synonymous with lustful or lewd or unruly .
Legal usage
In American legal jargon, lascivious is a semi-technical term indicating immoral sexual thoughts or actions. It is often used in the legal description of criminal acts in which some sort of sexual activity is prohibited to differentiate that activity from "innocent" conduct. It is often used as one of several adjectives to describe pornography as compared to non-pornographic depictions of sex or sexual themes.
In American legal jargon mailing lascivious matter is prohibited thus:
Every obscene, lewd, lascivious, indecent, filthy or vile article, matter, thing, device, or substance ... [i]s declared to be nonmailable matter and shall not be conveyed in the mails or delivered from any post office or by any letter carrier.[1]
Lascivious is not limited to pornography, however. For example, lascivious cohabitation refers to a mostly archaic crime of living with a member of the opposite sex, and having sexual intercourse with him or her without first entering a legal or religious marriage.[2] The legal term "Lewd & Lascivious" is connected to a crime which occurs when an adult has sexual contact with an underage child. Most definitions of this crime are defined as Lewd & Lascivious acts with a child under the age of 18, though the extent of this crime covers forcible rape and penetration with foreign objects. The California Penal Code Section is 288. Research will show that after an initial annoyance or molest the crime that follows is the more serious act of "lewd & lascivious acts", sexual abuse.
Similar legal topics include obscenity.[clarification needed]
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Lascivious
Dansk (Danish)
adj. - lysten, vellystig, liderlig, lasciv, æggende, pirrende
Nederlands (Dutch)
ontuchtig, onzedelijk, wellustig
Français (French)
adj. - licencieux, lascif
Deutsch (German)
adj. - lasziv, lüstern
Ελληνική (Greek)
adj. - λάγνος, άσεμνος, ακόλαστος
Português (Portuguese)
adj. - lascivo
Español (Spanish)
adj. - lascivo, lujurioso, voluptuoso
Svenska (Swedish)
adj. - lysten, vällustig, liderlig, eggande
中文（简体）(Chinese (Simplified))
好色的, 挑动情欲的, 淫荡的
中文（繁體）(Chinese (Traditional))
adj. - 好色的, 挑動情欲的, 淫蕩的
한국어 (Korean)
adj. - 음탕한 , 호색적인 , 도발적인
日本語 (Japanese)
adj. - みだらな, 好色な, 挑発的な
العربيه (Arabic)
(صفه) فاسق, داعر
עברית (Hebrew)
adj. - שטוף-זימה, תאוותני, מעורר תאווה
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