• (British) IPA: /ljuːd/
• (America) IPA: /lud/

lewd (comparative lewder, superlative lewdest)

1. Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
   • 2014 August 11, , "Robin Williams, Oscar-Winning Comedian, Dies at 63 in Suspected Suicide ↗," New York Times

     Onstage he was known for ricochet riffs on politics, social issues and cultural matters both high and low; tales of drug and alcohol abuse; lewd commentaries on relations between the sexes; and lightning-like improvisations on anything an audience member might toss at him.

2. (obsolete) Lay; not clerical.

   • So these great clerks their little wisdom show / To mock the lewd, as learn'd in this as they.

3. (obsolete) Uneducated.
4. (obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
   • 1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), imprinted at London: By Robert Barker, […], OCLC 964384981 ↗, Acts 17:5 ↗:

     But the Jews, which believed not, […] took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, […] and assaulted the house of Jason.

   • Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.

5. (obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.

• French: lascif, lubrique, paillard, grivois
• German: lüstern, lasziv
• Italian: lascivo
• Portuguese: lascivo, indecente
• Russian: похотли́вый
• Spanish: lascivo

lewd (lewds, present participle lewding; past and past participle lewded)

1. To get high on quaalude.
2. To express lust; to behave in a lewd manner.