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Lascivious vs Sleazy - What's the difference?

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Lascivious is a related term of sleazy.


As adjectives the difference between lascivious and sleazy

is that lascivious is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful while sleazy is marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.

lascivious

English

(wikipedia lascivious)

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • 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.

    • Synonyms

    * wanton, lewd, lustful

    See also

    * lecherous

    sleazy

    English

    Adjective

    (er)
  • Marked by low quality; inferior; inadequate.
  • Dishonorable; base; vulgar; raunchy; sordid.

    • Synonyms

    * skeezy

    Derived terms

    * sleaze