Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The state or quality of being lecherous.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun an inclination to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; habitually developing a strong sexual arousal.
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- noun The property of being
lecherous .
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- noun a strong sexual desire
Etymologies
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Examples
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Later, at GM's soirée, we see her lifted into arching overhead displays, examined with connoisseurial lecherousness, fondled, tasted and fetishised.
Manon – review 2011
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In the case of men, it's a Viagra-induced, satyr-like lecherousness (as in Peter O'Toole's last, pathetic movie); in the case of women, a post-menopausal horniness.
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Our heroine is constantly in the danger of being raped by rake Caspar, who already has strangled a wife - you know, Vincents sister - , the looming wedding night is milked for all lecherousness there can be, and the resigned acceptance of our heroine of this nutty marriage is off-putting, to say the least.
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Surely, "Playboy's" legacy is more lecherousness than liberation.
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The whole air and attitude of the form was one of stealthy cat – like obsequiousness; the whole expression of the face was concentrated in a wrinkled leer, compounded of cunning, lecherousness, slyness, and avarice.
Nicholas Nickleby 2007
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Then Hjalte bade her come closer, as though he would speak to her more privately; and, resenting that she needed a successor to his love, he cut off her nose and made her unsightly, punishing the utterance of that wanton question with a shameful wound, and thinking that the lecherousness of her soul ought to be cooled by outrage to her face.
The Danish History, Books I-IX Grammaticus Saxo
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They brought gin and a new lecherousness and deadly ills and novel superstitions, and found a people ready for their wares.
Mystic Isles of the South Seas. Frederick O'Brien 1900
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October 25, 1555, at the age of fifty-five, worn out prematurely with lecherousness, gormandizing, lust of power, and recent defeats, Charles
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The whole air and attitude of the form was one of stealthy cat-like obsequiousness; the whole expression of the face was concentrated in a wrinkled leer, compounded of cunning, lecherousness, slyness, and avarice.
Nicholas Nickleby Charles Dickens 1841
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That atmosphere and the lecherousness of the director - they have nothing to do with my personal experience.
latimes.com - News 2010
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