lascivious

Etymology

From Latin lascīviōsus, from lascīvia (“sportiveness, lustfulness”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ləˈsɪvɪəs/

Adjective

lascivious (comparative more lascivious, superlative most lascivious)

1. Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 29686887 , chapter I:

     The colonel and his sponsor made a queer contrast: Greystone [the sponsor] long and stringy, with a face that seemed as if a cold wind was eternally playing on it. […] But there was not a more lascivious reprobate and gourmand in all London than this same Greystone.

Anagrams

• laviscious