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lewdly

uncommon

adverb

1.

in a lewd and obscene manner

  • “he had seen how in their dances the white men and women held one another obscenely”
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Origin

From Middle English lewedly (“ignorantly, stupidly”); equivalent to lewd + -ly.

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