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• (swelter)- to suffer from oppressive heat, ( / /<br />

; ); The beat of the sun from above and the swelter of dust<br />

from below were overpowering. — The Great Boer War;<br />

promiscuous = prurient = salacious = lascivious = libidinous = licentious = lustful<br />

= lewd = letch = lecher = satyr : lechery<br />

• (promiscuous)- characterized by or involving indiscriminate mingling or<br />

association, esp. having sexual relations with a number of partners on a<br />

casual basis, ( ; ; );<br />

• casual; irregular; haphazard, ( ; ; ; );<br />

You're just killing yourself with this spontaneous, promiscuous, and<br />

premature overwork; that's what's the matter with you. — On the Frontier;<br />

• (prurient)- having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful<br />

thoughts, desires, etc, ( );<br />

Conservatives seemed prurient, mean, and xenophobic, even as Britain was<br />

increasingly tolerant, diverse, and cosmopolitan. — The American Prospect<br />

Articles;<br />

• (salacious)- lustful or lecherous, ( ; ; );<br />

Prurient, salacious, and gratuitous stories are unfair to both the accused and<br />

the accuser. — Romenesko;<br />

• (lascivious)- inclined to lustfulness; wanton; lewd, ( ; );<br />

The poems of Anacreon are lascivious, lustful, and essentially carnal, and<br />

history informs us that he was a sexual pervert. — Religion and Lust or, The<br />

Psychical Correlation of Religious Emotion and Sexual Desire;<br />

• (libidinous)- full of sexual lust; lustful; lewd; lascivious, ( ; ); He<br />

set no bounds to his libidinous intercourse with women, but never betrayed<br />

any unnatural desires for the other sex. — De vita Caesarum;<br />

• (licentious)- sexually unrestrained; lascivious; libertine; lewd, ( ;<br />

; ); Their songs and games are exceedingly licentious, and<br />

their myths are obscene. — Folkways A Study of the Sociological Importance of<br />

Usages, Manners, Customs, Mores, and Morals;<br />

• (lustful)- excited or driven by lust; He was carved from black marble, but his<br />

eyes were rubies, which glowed red and lustful as the coals of hell's deepest<br />

pits. — Conan the Wanderer;<br />

• (lewd)- obscene or indecent, ( ; ; ; ); He knew it<br />

had been pointed out that while the Germans are lewd, they are not dissolute.<br />

— Villa Elsa A Story of German Family Life;<br />

• (letch)- a strong, especially sexual desire or craving;<br />

• (lecher)- a man given to excessive sexual indulgence; a lascivious or

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