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as in lewdness
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Recent Examples of lechery
Mingus agreed to join him for moral support, but when Albee, whether through nonchalance or lechery, answered the door wearing nothing but a beltless bathrobe, Mingus balked and hightailed it out of there.
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Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
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The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.
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David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2022
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
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Eric Sondheimer Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Aug. 2021
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Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
—
Eric Sondheimer Columnist,
Los Angeles Times,
9 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lechery
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The old include the obvious (Louis) and less obvious (a one-of-a-kind musical origin story), but the new arrives in the form of the mysterious Gabriella (Jennifer Ehle), Lestat’s undead mother whose thirst for blood ranks a distant second to her nymphomania.
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This is a distinct category from the Mile-High Clubbers, whose lewdness is much more inappropriate.
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Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.
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All that thinking has only strengthened my conviction that learning to love your face without objectification is a powerful way to counteract the damaging and distressing messages from a beauty culture that prizes youthfulness and hypersexuality.
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Marie is disciplined and principled, while her rebellious daughter prides herself on breaking the rules and reveling in lasciviousness.
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Indeed, the Knick who’s really sparked my ardor lately is shooting guard Josh Hart—in no small part because of the sweetness of his bond with his wife, registered nurse Shannon Hart.
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Like the nun Beate before her, Susanna seems destined, as punishment for her overwhelming ardor, to be walled into the convent.
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More broadly, this same chain of logic turns the Voting Rights Act into a zombie law, a perversion of its intended purpose that now mostly protects white Americans from any attempts to break their disproportionate control of voting machinery.
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The Fair Districts law is a partisan perversion walking around in a phony non-partisan trenchcoat.
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Grace’s playfully feral wantonness is funny and bewitching, but her schtick loses its luster for Jackson, who takes a job that keeps him away from home, leaving her with the baby.
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And a relatively small number of conservative states have banned drag shows under public indecency or obscenity statutes.
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Some of the city's health standards will also be revised to add exceptions to existing indecency laws.
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“Lechery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lechery. Accessed 6 Jul. 2026.
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