lech

noun

ˈlech How to pronounce lech (audio)
Definition of lechnext
as in desire
sexual appetite a story about a detective with a nose for crime and a lech for women

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  1. desire
  2. passion
  3. lust
  4. letch
Noun
  • Cary, torn between his own desires and others’ expectations, can’t seem to determine where his loyalties lie.
    — Aramide Tinubu, Variety, 15 July 2026
  • Unrequited yearning, alcoholism, and suppressed desires abound in the 80-minute one-act play, which won Escola a Tony Award.
    — Lily Ford, HollywoodReporter, 15 July 2026
Definition of desire
Noun
  • Saturday’s match was missing the loud Latin passion and party atmosphere that South American teams’ fans would have brought; the near-constant singing and chanting to a steady pounding drumbeat.
    — Miami Herald, Miami Herald, 12 July 2026
  • Louise’s knowledge and expertise is immense – as is her passion for television.
    — Jesse Whittock, Deadline, 10 July 2026
Definition of passion
Noun
  • The dialectically deft characters in his movies aren’t talking heads but talking bodies, elaborating a world of cultural and rhetorical elegance from the sublimation of lust and the dream of love.
    — Richard Brody, New Yorker, 9 July 2026
  • More important to Bernstein is what that lust reveals about her characters’ deepest needs, specifically how their need to care and be cared for can be as easily perverted as any other form of desire.
    — David Ehrlich, IndieWire, 9 July 2026
Definition of lust
Noun
  • Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs.
    — Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
Definition of letch
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