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Recent Examples of lubricious Whenever the lovers escape the family’s attention, the lighting designer Isabella Byrd throws deep shadows over their sometimes naked forms, turning their bodies into lubricious, moving Caravaggios. — Helen Shaw, New Yorker, 26 June 2025 The sensational engine gathers the car's haunches to spew you onto the following straights in great, lubricious spendings of energy. — Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023 Pascal played lubricious movie star Dieter Bravo in Judd Apatow's semi-improvised comedy about a group of actors attempting to shoot a preposterous dinosaur movie during the pandemic. — Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022 For all of Sabbath’s lubricious opportunism, Drenka is his one love. — The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021 Some of it is merely lubricious; some of it verges on the profound. — Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lubricious
Adjective
  • The colors are dour and muted, and the yearnings of the two elder Dashwood sisters—the self-abnegating Elinor (Daisy Edgar-Jones) and the passionate Marianne (Esmé Creed-Miles, a gimlet-eyed standout)—often play out in drearily candlelit rooms.
    — Hannah Jocelyn, New Yorker, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Bulgari staff is notably passionate about this garden and volunteers there on a regular basis.
    — Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 22 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • Then, of course, there’s the sandwich that started it all — the Sublime, with prosciutto, hot soppressata, burrata, fresh walnut pesto, spicy garlic aioli, sundried tomatoes and arugula.
    — Katelyn Umholtz, Kansas City Star, 22 Oct. 2026
  • Neither is the league’s hottest player, the record five-time MVP A’Ja Wilson, whose defending champion Las Vegas were swept in the semifinals by Golden State.
    — Don Riddell, CNN Money, 22 Oct. 2026
Adjective
  • La Nueva Violencia is a smirking, libidinous play for the dance floor, picking up where the distorted guitars of the last record left off and channeling each new riff into sleazy post-punk and electroclash that stick to the body like sweaty velvet.
    — Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026
  • The 10-minute score, with begins with a virtuosic timpani solo, is meant to evoke the libidinous atmosphere in Mexico City dance clubs in the 1980s.
    — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 2026
Adjective
  • Caruso has been charged with kidnapping, lewd or lascivious molestation, lewd or lascivious exhibition, luring or enticing a child, and child abuse inflicting mental injury.
    — Claire Heddles, Miami Herald, 6 Oct. 2026
  • Count 6, lewd and lascivious conduct against a child under 16.
    — Nikiya Carrero, CBS News, 18 Sep. 2026

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“Lubricious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubricious. Accessed 25 Oct. 2026.

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