lechery

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Recent Examples of lechery Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles. The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025 Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter. David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022 Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading. Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022 With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run. Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2021 See All Example Sentences for lechery
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lechery
Noun
  • Here are two real-life examples of this cycle of erotomania.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 27 Feb. 2024
  • This eccentric delusion is clinically recognized as erotomania.
    Eric Taipale, Discover Magazine, 14 Oct. 2022
Noun
  • Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.
    Ralph Leonard, The Atlantic, 4 Feb. 2025
  • Clark, instead, memorializes Black Twitter, hoping to prevent further perversion of Black innovation, Black language, culture and style.
    J Wortham, New York Times, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor. 54.
    Will Leitch, Vulture, 3 Mar. 2025
  • With the exception of the loving, loyal Nasha, whom Ackie invests with romantic ardor and action-hero intensity, Mickey’s fellow-travellers prove a rotten lot.
    Justin Chang, The New Yorker, 28 Feb. 2025
Noun
  • As an undercover policeman, his job is to loiter near the men’s bathroom at the local shopping mall and seduce passing trade into committing acts of what his superiors would call gross indecency.
    Damon Wise, Deadline, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Molina, a gay hairdresser convicted of public indecency during Argentina’s brutal military dictatorship, has been sent to the political wing of a prison and put in the same cell as Valentin Arregui (a solid, if unremarkable Diego Luna), an intense and serious-minded Marxist revolutionary.
    Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 27 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.
    Kary Love, Twin Cities, 7 Feb. 2025
  • The minimum size of a white dwarf is controlled by something called electron degeneracy pressure.
    Keith Cooper, Space.com, 19 Dec. 2024

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“Lechery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lechery. Accessed 12 Mar. 2025.

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