lewdness
Crude sexual behavior
Lewdness is crude sexual behavior or expression—the quality of being lewd.
The term appears in legal contexts describing indecent exposure or obscene conduct: arrested for public lewdness.
More broadly, it describes anything overtly and tastelessly sexual: the lewdness of the comedian's act.
Vulgar or indecent humor
- raunchinessCrude sexual vulgarity
- smutLewd content or soot
- bawdinessIndecent or vulgar quality
- obscenityIndecent word or act
vulgarity · crudeness · coarseness · filth · profanity · dirty jokes · innuendo · double entendre
Overt sexual impropriety
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
- lecheryExcessive sexual indulgence
libertinism · wantonness · dissipation · carnality · sensuality · perversion · profligacy · degeneracy
Quality of being wicked
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
- shamelessnessAbsence of moral embarrassment
- sinfulnessMoral depravity condition
- impuritySubstance degrading another's quality
corruption · vice · turpitude · wickedness · depravity · baseness · sordidness · disrepute
ribaldry
Vulgar or indecent humor
- raunchinessCrude sexual vulgarity
- smutLewd content or soot
- bawdinessIndecent or vulgar quality
obscenity · vulgarity · crudeness · coarseness · filth · profanity · dirty jokes · innuendo · double entendre · suggestiveness
lasciviousness
Overt sexual impropriety
- licentiousnessExcessive disregard for morality
- debaucheryExtreme indulgence in vices
- promiscuityFrequent casual sexual encounters
lechery · libertinism · wantonness · dissipation · carnality · sensuality · perversion · profligacy · degeneracy · seduction
immorality
Quality of being wicked
- indecencyOffensive or vulgar behavior
- shamelessnessAbsence of moral embarrassment
- sinfulnessMoral depravity condition
impurity · corruption · vice · turpitude · wickedness · depravity · baseness · sordidness · disrepute · scandal
- misconductmisconduct, bullying, stealing, vandalism, cheating
- vicesgreed, envy, lust, gluttony, vanity
- deviancedeviance, perversion, perversity, aberration, abnormality
- lustlust, lustfulness, carnality, concupiscence, libido
- misdemeanorsmisdemeanor, petty theft, disorderly conduct, public intoxication, petty larceny
- vicevice, debauchery, prostitution, depravity, immorality
lewdnesschastity
Abstaining from sexual activity
modesty · chasteness · prudishness · celibacy · puritanism
lewdnessvirtue
Moral goodness or merit
purity · uprightness · wholesomeness · righteousness · innocence
lewdnessdecency
Moral appropriateness in behavior
propriety · decorum · seemliness · appropriateness · decorousness
- public lewdnessObscene acts in open