lech

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Noun
  • Appetite refers to the desire to eat.
    Merve Ceylan, Health, 26 Oct. 2025
  • This decision comes from a place of necessity, not desire.
    Glenn Garner, Deadline, 26 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Although the Peacock adaptation didn't show a full shot of Gacy in his clown costume, the series included scenes of him talking about his passion for dressing up as a clown and publicly performing as one.
    Caroline Blair, PEOPLE, 20 Oct. 2025
  • But Saft’s true passion is for diamonds in the rough.
    Alexandra Schwartz, New Yorker, 20 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Louise Hémon The jury would also like to acknowledge a director whose film transported us into an extreme landscape, and created an unsettling atmosphere that kept us contemplating the nature of lust, education, and violence.
    Christian Blauvelt, IndieWire, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The story's become one of most iconic tales of the 20th century, one filled to the brim with glorious weirdness, corruption, blood, lust and plenty of song and dance.
    Audrey Gibbs, Nashville Tennessean, 23 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.
    Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs.
    Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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“Lech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lech. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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