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Dissolute; wild; lewd; rakish. [Obs.] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Debauchery; lewdness. The rakery and intrigues of the lewd town. R. North.

Dissolute; lewd; debauched. The arduous task of converting a rakish lover. Macaulay.

A low, vulgar, brutal, foul-mouthed wretch; a lewd fellow. Spenser. Pope. Ribald was almost a class name in the feudal system . . . He was his patron's parasite, bulldog, and tool . . . It is not to be wondered at that the word rapidly became a synonym for everything ruffianly and brutal. Earle.

The talk of a ribald; low, vulgar language; indecency; obscenity; lewdness; -- now chiefly applied to indecent language, but formerly, as by Chaucer, also to indecent acts or conduct. The ribaldry of his conversation moved Macaulay.

Loose act of vice or lewdness. [Obs.] Shak.

Pertaining to lewdness or fornication; lewd.

Devoted to the pleasures of sense and appetite; luxurious; voluptuous; lewd; libidinous. No small part of virtue consists in abstaining from that wherein sensual men place their felicity. Atterbury.

appetites; free indulgence in carnal or sensual pleasures; luxuriousness; voluptuousness; lewdness. Those pampered animals That rage in savage sensuality. Shak. They avoid dress, lest they should have affections tainted by any sensuality. Addison.

Obscene; not modest or pure; as, a smutty saying. The smutty joke, ridiculously lewd. Smollett. -- Smut"ti*ly, adv. -- Smut"ti*ness, n.

A wencher; a lewd man. [Obs.] Massinger.

Planned with study; deliberate; studied. For the frigid villainy of studious lewdness, . . . with apology can be invented Rambler.

Cunning; skill; craft. [Obs.] To learn a lewd man this subtility. Chaucer.

Not chaste; not continent; lewd. -- Un*chaste"ly, adv. -- Un*chaste"ness, n.

The quality or state of being unchaste; lewdness; incontinence.

Specifically: Deviating from the rules of chastity; lewd; lustful; lascivious; libidinous; lecherous. Not with wanton looking of folly. Chaucer. [Thou art] froward by nature, enemy to peace, Lascivious, wanton. Shak.

One who wenches; a lewd man.

To have unlawful sexual intercourse; to practice lewdness.

The practice of unlawful intercourse with the other sex; fornication; lewdness.

A man who practices lewdness; a lecher; a whoremonger.