Usually means: Sexually explicit or indecent behavior.
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General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. lewd: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. lewd: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. lewd: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. lewd: Collins English Dictionary
  5. lewd: Vocabulary.com
  6. Lewd, lewd: Wordnik
  7. lewd: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. lewd: Wiktionary
  9. lewd: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. lewd: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. lewd: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. lewd: Dictionary.com
  13. lewd: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. lewd: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. Lewd: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Lewd: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. lewd: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. lewd: Rhymezone
  19. lewd: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. lewd: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. lewd: Free Dictionary
  22. lewd: Mnemonic Dictionary
  23. lewd: Dictionary/thesaurus
  24. Lewd: World Wide Words

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

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  1. Everybody's Legal Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  3. lewd: Legal dictionary

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  1. lewd: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. LEWD: Acronym Finder
  2. lewd: Wordcraft Dictionary

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. LEWD: Glossary of Biblical English of the Authorised Version of the HOLY BIBLE

(Note: See lewdly as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
adjective:  (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
adjective:  (obsolete) Uneducated.
adjective:  (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
adjective:  (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
noun:  A sexually suggestive image, particularly one which does not involve full nudity.
verb:  (slang, transitive, intransitive) To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.
verb:  (slang) Alternative form of lude (“take the drug quaalude”) [(slang, intransitive) To get high on Quaalude.]

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