lewdness

[ lood-nis ]

noun

1. indecency or obscenity; vulgar sexual character or behavior:

   The strip club has been shut down repeatedly for lewdness and public sexual acts.

Word History and Origins

Origin of lewdness¹

lewd ( def ) + -ness ( def )

Example Sentences

With the money came the filth, and the contemptuous lewdness you see in the film are based on actual claims in the book.

From The Daily Beast

Walker would later be arrested twice for public lewdness in Dallas park bathrooms.

From The Daily Beast

Thus will I cause lewdness to cease out of the land, that all women may be taught not to do after your lewdness.

From Project Gutenberg

Perhaps this part of the story is only a figure of rhetoric to express the horrible lewdness of Sodom and of Gomorrah.

From Project Gutenberg

They owe their birth to the wild, unbridled lewdness of arbitrary power.

From Project Gutenberg

And afterwards he gives Lesbonicus a great deal of sober advice, and declaims heartily against Luxury and Lewdness!

From Project Gutenberg

If Lewdness will not thrive under such encouragement it must e'en Miscarry!

From Project Gutenberg