Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A man given to lechery.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A man given to lewdness; one who is grossly unchaste; a habitual libertine.
- To practise lewdness; indulge in lust.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit sexual relations with women; also called
letch andlech . - intransitive verb To practice lewdness.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
lecherous person (almost always male). - verb To practice lewdness.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun man with strong sexual desires
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Falstaff (Christopher Benjamin), that grasping old lecher, is beaten, ridiculed and generally humiliated as usual.
London Theater Journal: A Double-Header at the Globe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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Falstaff (Christopher Benjamin), that grasping old lecher, is beaten, ridiculed and generally humiliated as usual.
London Theater Journal: A Double-Header at the Globe - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com 2008
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He was a liar and a lecher, and his writings about Africa are laden with a kind of me-bwana–you-noble-savage colonialism that does not wear well.
Still Red in Tooth and Claw Stephen Budiansky 2011
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She is gray and scaly and trusting some lecher more than she trusts Dick.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
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Osborne then escalated it like a sad lecher who takes every joking comment seriously.
This week: Sathya Sai Baba, George Osborne, Wayne Rooney 2011
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Unfortunately it's not against the law to be an old lecher.
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June 29th, 2009 4: 11 pm ET another lecher .... kudos America ... you really know how to pick 'em
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In Saul Bellow's "Humboldt's Gift," the narrator describes himself as an "idiotic old lecher" who is "leaving two children to follow an obvious gold digger to corrupt Europe."
Bringing Up Baby? Definitely Jonathan Rosen 2011
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Of the world's ample types of miscreant — the hypocrite, the lecher, the glutton, the miser, the charlatan and many others — my preference is overwhelmingly for the charlatan.
Portrait of a Silver-Tongued Deceiver Joseph Epstein 2011
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She is gray and scaly and trusting some lecher more than she trusts Dick.
Amaryllis in Blueberry Christina Meldrum 2011
madmouth commented on the word lecher
I want goatsy to be an adjective so I can put it in front of lecher
April 14, 2009