lewd
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Adj — Sexually indecent or vulgar in a crude, offensive way.
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lewd comments
lewd behavior
lewd conduct
A fairly formal or legal-sounding word — often used in news reports and court contexts ("lewd conduct").
Etymology
From Old English laewede ("unlearned, lay, not a member of the clergy"). The word originally just meant "uneducated" or "common," and drifted over centuries toward its modern sense of crude and sexually indecent.
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