laviscious
/ləˈvɪ.ʃəs/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
15
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
2
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Example Sentences
- "By contrast the RPS Annual International Exhibition and the London Salon are showing nothing designed to appeal to laviscious tastes, and they lose nothing by it."
- "In love with the 8-year-old Billy, he sometimes saw himself as an ideal big brother, but usually he was the child's pampering mother (all good), or alternatively the "satanic beast" harboring laviscious feelings for him (all bad)."
- "I don't mean the shallow and banal, the this-worldliness of the enlightened, the busy the comfortable or laviscious, but the profound, the worldliness characterised by discipline and constant knowledge of both death and resurrection."
- "The rumor goes that Rochelle was so laviscious that even the brothel threw her out. Zeinval has been with her and agonizes over whether or not he should tell Shmerl."
Etymology
Formed by transposition of the "v" and "sc" of the word lascivious, probably influenced by lavish and/or vicious.
Inflected Forms
more laviscious (comparative)
most laviscious (superlative)