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Unruly vs Lascivious - What's the difference?

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Unruly is a related term of lascivious.


As adjectives the difference between unruly and lascivious

is that unruly is wild; uncontrolled while lascivious is wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.

unruly

English

Adjective

(er)
  • wild; uncontrolled
    • The police gathered to contain the unruly mob.

    lascivious

    English

    (wikipedia lascivious)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Wanton; lewd, driven by lust, lustful.
  • *
  • *: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