laviscious
English edit
Etymology edit
Formed by transposition of the "v" and "sc" of the word lascivious, probably influenced by lavish and/or vicious.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
laviscious (comparative more laviscious, superlative most laviscious)
- (rare) Misconstruction of lascivious.
- 1987, The Photographic Journal, volume 127, page 434:
- 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.
- 1988, Michael W. Ross, Psychopathology and psychotherapy in homosexuality, page 106:
- 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).
- 2003, Philip Hughes, Brian Howe, Spirit of Australia II: Religion in Citizenship and National Life, page 205:
- 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.
- 2009, Maxine A. Hartley, Guide to the Works of Isaac Bashevis Singer, page 83:
- 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.