How to Use lascivious in a Sentence
lascivious
adjective- He was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior.
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Goularte is facing a felony count of a lewd and lascivious act with a child under the age of 14.
— USA TODAY, 3 Mar. 2022 -
He is accused of three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
— Darrell Smith and and Diana Lambert, sacbee, 19 Oct. 2017 -
Joseph is facing a charge of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between the ages of 12 and 16.
— Linda Trischitta, sun-sentinel.com, 6 Aug. 2019 -
Philip always was a flirt and the Queen used to joke about his lascivious nature.
— Leah Campano, Seventeen, 11 Nov. 2022 -
Lajmiri faces charges of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor under the age of 14.
— Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019 -
News in a statement that the second tape had any lascivious footage.
— Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022 -
Joseph was charged with two counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with a victim between the ages of 12 and 16.
— Wayne K. Roustan, sun-sentinel.com, 13 Mar. 2021 -
At one point, one of them took a lascivious ice cream lick out of the side of Nas’s neck, the singer biting his lip in satisfaction.
— New York Times, 7 July 2021 -
The four-poster double bed from the redbrick house took up most of the new bedroom, and Mother took up most of the old bed, lying across it, loose and lascivious.
— Christine Schutt, Harper’s Magazine , 16 Feb. 2022 -
Like nocturnal vipers, lascivious priests make hissing sounds in the middle of the night to alert nuns and gain entry.
— Mike Mariani, Slate Magazine, 22 Mar. 2017 -
The paparazzi are portrayed as a lascivious swarm of trench coat-wearing men.
— Charles McNulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021 -
The raucous piano and whoops of Little Richard, 87, left a legacy of lascivious joy from the very beginnings of rock and roll.
— David Colton, USA Today, 8 Dec. 2020 -
She is also charged with two counts of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child.
— Noah Goldberg, Los Angeles Times, 10 Mar. 2023 -
The clarinets played a lascivious dance, queasily passed on to the violins.
— Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023 -
Reyes was arrested in Dec. 2013 on three felony counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts on a child.
— Dom Pruett, The Mercury News, 18 Apr. 2017 -
White was charged with two counts of lewd or lascivious acts with a minor 14 or 15 years of age, and four counts of annoying or molesting a child.
— Los Angeles Times, 17 Feb. 2023 -
Goularte was charged with one felony count of a lewd and lascivious act on a child on Feb. 25 and was granted supervised release, police said.
— Fox News, 2 Mar. 2022 -
Martin is facing four counts of lewd and lascivious battery on a child between 12 and 16.
— Caitlin Randle, Sun-Sentinel.com, 11 Aug. 2017 -
John Benny Gomez, 50, was convicted last year of nine felonies, including lewd and lascivious acts with a girl less than 10 years old at the time.
— Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 20 Aug. 2019 -
On Thursday, he was charged with lewd and lascivious conduct.
— BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019 -
He is being held on a charge of lewd or lascivious molestation.
— Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019 -
Sablan was transported to the Long Beach City Jail, where he was booked for kidnapping, lewd and lascivious acts with a child, and fugitive from justice.
— Kerry Breen, CBS News, 21 July 2023 -
The lewd and lascivious behavior counts are based on reports from three women who worked with Jones in the Shorewood School District.
— Jeff Rumage, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 16 May 2018 -
McGill was arrested on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery.
— Chris Harris, PEOPLE.com, 11 Apr. 2018 -
That resulted in a search of Neverland Ranch and the singer being charged with, among other things, lewd and lascivious acts with a child under 14.
— Abbey White, The Hollywood Reporter, 5 Feb. 2023 -
Under these sections, those convicted of open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior may face up to three years in prison and a fine of up to $300.
— Heather McCarron, USA TODAY, 9 Dec. 2022 -
Jacquees’s music is full of longing (and his lyrics sometimes skew lascivious).
— Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2019 -
He was also convicted of lewd or lascivious acts on a child under 14 in Butte County, records show.
— Dalia Faheid, CNN, 26 July 2024 -
But the filthiest thing about it is the way the music underscores the lyrics, as lascivious a bump and grind as Nikki could’ve hoped to find, complete with overheated shrieks and wails from Prince giving way to some suitably excitable guitar leads.
— Ed Masley, The Arizona Republic, 27 June 2024
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