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How to pronounce lubricious in English?

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Synonyms lustful, prurient, salacious


eluding lubricious embraces.
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the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious.

Examples of lubricious

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Its lubricious refinement, quiet and bronze-bell solidity are wonders to behold.
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Hostile power posing might also help to unsettle a lubricious business contact.
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Is the play, then, simply lubricious Erskine Caldwell country shipped north?
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Sleek and lubricious, elliptical and dead serious, Lightness dares to be laughed at.
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The arrival of this lubricious pair just now is a coincidence, not the harbinger of a trend.
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The hero puns bawdily about nights with Ophelia's lubricious ghost.
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His memoirs too were made of whole cloth, the lubricious dreams of a suppressed old Victorian.
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Victoria Tennant, the ragman's daughter, is suitably lubricious.
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Their talk is nakedly lubricious, yet it shimmers with wit.
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  • Having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious"
  • Characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"
  • (lubricity) prurience: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
  • Lubricity is the measure of the reduction in friction of a lubricant. The study of lubrication and mechanism wear is called tribology.
  • Smooth and glassy; slippery; lewd, wanton, salacious or lecherous
  • (LUBRICITY) ability of an oil or grease to lubricate.
  • (Lubricity) The "smoothness" of a fuel which affects wear-and-tear on the engine. The higher the lubricity, the easier a fuel can move through an engine, resulting in longer engine life. Lubricity is measured as "kinetic viscosity." Biodiesel is known for its lubricity.
  • (Lubricity) The property of slipperiness, oiliness, smoothness.
  • (Lubricity) The capacity to reduce friction.