impurity

Roget category 961

6. Words relating to the sentient and moral
› 6.4. Moral affections
›› 6.4.4. Moral practice

#961. Impurity

noun

impurity — uncleanness etc. (filth) 653 — immodesty — grossness etc. adj. — indelicacy, indecency — impudicity^† — obscenity, ribaldry, Fescennine, smut, bawdry^†, double entente, equivoque [Fr.].
concupiscence, lust, carnality, flesh, salacity — pruriency, lechery, lasciviency^†, lubricity — Sadism, sapphism^†.
incontinence, intrigue, faux pas [Fr.] — amour, amourette^† — gallantry — debauchery, libertinish^†, libertinage^†, fornication — liaison — wenching, venery, dissipation.
seduction — defloration, defilement, abuse, violation, rape — incest.
prostitution, social evil, harlotry, stupration^†, whoredom, concubinage, cuckoldom^†, adultery, advoutry^†, crim.
con.
— free love.
seraglio, harem — brothel, bagnio^†, stew, bawdyhouse^†, cat house, lupanar^†, house of ill fame, bordel^†, bordello.

verb

be impure etc. adj. — intrigue — debauch, defile, seduce — prostitute — abuse, violate, deflower — commit adultery etc. n..

adjective

impure — unclean etc. (dirty) 653 — not to be mentioned to ears polite — immodest, shameless — indecorous, indelicate, indecent — Fescennine — loose, risque [Fr.], coarse, gross, broad, free, equivocal, smutty, fulsome, ribald, obscene, bawdy, pornographic.
concupiscent, prurient, lickerish^†, rampant, lustful — carnal, carnal-minded — lewd, lascivious, lecherous, libidinous, erotic, ruttish, salacious — Paphian — voluptuous — goatish, must, musty.
unchaste, light, wanton, licentious, debauched, dissolute — of loose character, of easy virtue — frail, gay, riggish^†, incontinent, meretricious, rakish, gallant, dissipated — no better than she should be — on the town, on the streets, on the pave, on the loose.
adulterous, incestuous, bestial.

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