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lubricious
/luˈbɹɪʃəs/
adj 2
Collocations
3ADJ.
wild
LUBRICIOUS + NOUN
managers, suggestions
PREP.
in
Definitions
adj
1
Smooth and glassy; slippery.
2
Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony.
Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.
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Synonyms
adjective — characterized by lust
- lustful
- prurient
- salacious
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His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based
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Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain.
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