lewdly
adverb
lewdly is an adverb meaning “In a lewd manner” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled L-E-W-D-L-Y, and it appears about once in every 28 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does lewdly mean?
adverb
- 1
In a lewd manner.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of lewdly
- more lewdly comparative
- most lewdly superlative
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is lewdly?
Lewdly appears about once in every 28 million words in written English, the 161,690th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does lewdly come from?
From Middle English lewedly (“ignorantly, stupidly”); equivalent to lewd + -ly.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).