Degraded vs Lewd - What's the difference?
degraded | lewd | Related terms |
Feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect.
(biology) Having the typical characters or organs in a partially developed condition, or lacking certain parts.
(heraldry) Having steps; said of a cross whose extremities end in steps growing larger as they leave the centre; on degrees.
(degrade)
Lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.
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(obsolete) Lay; not clerical.
* Sir J. Davies
(obsolete) Uneducated.
(obsolete) Vulgar, common; typical of the lower orders.
* Bible, Acts xvii. 5.
* Southey
(obsolete) Base, vile, reprehensible.
Degraded is a related term of lewd.
As adjectives the difference between degraded and lewd
is that degraded is feeling or having undergone degradation; deprived of dignity or self-respect while lewd is lascivious, sexually promiscuous, rude.As a verb degraded
is (degrade).degraded
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The Netherlands were reduced practically to a very degraded condition. — Motley.
- Some families of plants are degraded dicotyledons. — Dana.
Synonyms
* humiliatedVerb
(head)lewd
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Adjective
(er)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.
- So these great clerks their little wisdom show / To mock the lewd , as learn'd in this as they.
- But the Jews, which believed not, and assaulted the house of Jason.
- Too lewd to work, and ready for any kind of mischief.
