How to Use lascivious in a Sentence

lascivious

adjective
  • He was arrested for lewd and lascivious behavior.
  • He is accused of three counts of lewd and lascivious acts with a child.
    — Darrell Smith and and Diana Lambert, sacbee, 19 Oct. 2017
  • News in a statement that the second tape had any lascivious footage.
    — Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Jan. 2022
  • 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 result is as buttery as black cod and as lascivious as lardo.
    — Helen Rosner, The New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2024
  • Philip always was a flirt and the Queen used to joke about his lascivious nature.
    — Leah Campano, Seventeen, 11 Nov. 2022
  • He is being held on a charge of lewd or lascivious molestation.
    — Jayme Deerwester, USA TODAY, 18 Oct. 2019
  • 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
  • The paparazzi are portrayed as a lascivious swarm of trench coat-wearing men.
    — Charles McNulty Theater Critic, Los Angeles Times, 4 Oct. 2021
  • Jacquees’s music is full of longing (and his lyrics sometimes skew lascivious).
    — Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 12 Nov. 2019
  • On Thursday, he was charged with lewd and lascivious conduct.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 26 Oct. 2019
  • Lajmiri faces charges of lewd and lascivious acts on a minor under the age of 14.
    — Steve Rubenstein, SFChronicle.com, 25 Nov. 2019
  • The children’s father may have lascivious designs of his own.
    — Dwight Garner, New York Times, 12 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • McGill was arrested on a charge of lewd and lascivious battery.
    — David Harris, OrlandoSentinel.com, 11 Apr. 2018
  • The clarinets played a lascivious dance, queasily passed on to the violins.
    — Christian Hertzog, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Nov. 2023
  • 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
  • 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
  • Jean is charged with lewd and lascivious molestation on a child 12-16 years old and battery.
    — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 13 May 2026
  • Marcelino Olguin was the only one charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14.
    — Izzy Alvarez, ABC News, 18 Oct. 2024
  • 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
  • Police said he had just been released from jail in December on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior.
    — Cbs Miami Team, CBS News, 28 Jan. 2026
  • 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
  • That office confirmed that a jury found Chapman not guilty of open and gross lewdness and lewd, wanton, and lascivious acts.
    — Danny McDonald, BostonGlobe.com, 9 Aug. 2019
  • He previously was convicted of lewd and lascivious acts with a child under the age of 14.
    — David Hernandez, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 May 2017
  • The goal of Troye and Charli’s austere, loud, lascivious evening is to take the sweet abandon of the club and scale it up to the arena.
    — Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2024
  • His stepfather pleaded guilty to lewd and lascivious behavior with a minor.
    — Dan Pompei, New York Times, 2 Dec. 2025
  • Every once in a while, a customer complains about the lascivious photos in the loo, but The Charles’ owners brush it off.
    — Sarah Blaskovich, Dallas Morning News, 10 Feb. 2026
  • 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
  • Sheriff’s officials said Guidry faces three counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child younger than 14 years old.
    — Rosalio Ahumada, Sacbee.com, 19 Dec. 2025

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