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How to pronounce lechery in English?

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Type Words
Type of sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice
Derivation lecherous

Examples of lechery

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The foghorn pitch of their voices suggests heartaches not heroics, lechery not love.
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Lenny Baker is hilarious as Lucio, advocating lechery in the accents of Will Rogers.
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Catching him with his wig down, Gerda momentarily taps a streak of puritanical lechery.
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He's got the looks and the voice, but he needs to curb his enthusiasm for oleaginous lechery.
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Aphrodite, or Venus in Roman mythology, also wore girdles associated with lechery in later poetry.
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Michael Douglas slaps on the lechery like handfuls of Aqua Velva to play the ghostly gigolo known as Uncle Wayne.
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Actually, Turner's condescending gesture reeked more of country club bonhomie, circa 1950, than unbridled lechery.
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Its graceless lechery weighs down a comedy about three airline hostesses who share a Paris flat with Tony Curtis.
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Lechery is an expectedly prominent theme of this biography of perhaps the randiest American hero since Benjamin Franklin.
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More examples
  • Unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity
  • (lecherous) given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for-nothing"
  • Lust is a craving for sexual intercourse, which can sometimes assume a violent or self-indulgent character. In the three major Abrahamic religions, it is considered a sin.
  • (lecherous) (adj) - impure in thought and act, lustful
  • Unrestrained, excessive indulgence of sexual desires; gross sensuality; lewdness; here, lechery refers to Proctor's affair with Abigail.