adjective

• (of words or behaviour) obscene or scurrilous in nature.

  ‘Fescennine licence’

  More example sentences

  • ‘A merry oration in the Fescennine manner.’
  • ‘Early native Italian jocular dialogue in Latin verse are known as Fescennine verses.’
  • ‘A Fescennine song was a lewd take on what was happening in the bridal chamber.’
  • ‘Professional actors replaced the rude, extempore Fescennine verses with dancing and singing to the flute.’
  • ‘In ancient Rome the performance of Fescennine songs at a wedding was said to avert the evil eye.’

  Synonyms

  pornographic, indecent, salacious, smutty, lewd, rude, dirty, filthy, vulgar, foul, coarse, crude, gross, vile, nasty, disgusting, offensive, shameless, immoral, improper, immodest, impure, indecorous, indelicate, unwholesome, scabrous, off colour, lubricious, risqué, ribald, bawdy, suggestive, titillating, racy, erotic, carnal, sensual, sexy, lascivious, lecherous, licentious, libidinous, goatish, degenerate, depraved, amoral, debauched, dissolute, prurient