Lascivious vs Scurrilous - What's the difference?
lascivious | scurrilous |
Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
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*: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.
(of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed
(of language) coarse, vulgar, abusive, or slanderous
* 2014 July 29, "
As adjectives the difference between lascivious and scurrilous
is that lascivious is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful while scurrilous is (of a person) given to vulgar verbal abuse; foul-mouthed.lascivious
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(wikipedia lascivious)Adjective
(en adjective)Synonyms
* wanton, lewd, lustfulSee also
* lecherousscurrilous
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Adjective
(en adjective)On chutzpah and war," Aljazeera.com (retrieved 29 July 2014):
- Perhaps the greatest chutzpah is the term itself, moving from scurrilous origins to something admirable.