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Recent Examples of lecherous Anderson's Jennifer was the heart of the fictional WKRP, providing morale, gusto, and endlessly ebullient enthusiasm in an environment dominated by cynical, sometimes lecherous men. Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 4 Aug. 2025 Aubrey Plaza is also well-cast as her emotionally distant love interest, MG Falcone, a cop at the local precinct; and Chris Evans slips easily into the role of Drew Devlin, a lecherous religious cult leader. Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 23 May 2025 Nightclubs are full of lecherous old Americans groping belly dancers with their webbed frog hands. Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025 American baritone Titus Muzzi III makes his LVO debut in the title role of the swaggering, lecherous nobleman whose proud and stubborn defiance of authority leads to his spectacular and fiery demise. Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025 See All Example Sentences for lecherous
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lecherous
Adjective
  • As his star has risen, the performer born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio has become the most passionate and effective ambassador in Puerto Rican history.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Stay open to rapid communication, travel opportunities, or passionate connections.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • Add onion, garlic, ginger, celery to hot oil and cook for 2 minutes; do not allow to brown.
    Susan Selasky, Freep.com, 4 Oct. 2025
  • After the slow, quiet, hot month of August, when many Parisians leave the city and go on holiday, the arrival of fall fills the city with life again as temperatures cool and everyone gets back to their routine.
    Kelsey Glennon, Travel + Leisure, 4 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • There is nothing quite so sluttish, apparently, as a lustful pistil.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • He’s got a strong, if not particularly nuanced, voice that served him well over the lustful screams from the audience, which was heavy on young women and families.
    Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Among those arrested was Walther Ramiro Hernandez-Ortiz, an 18-year-old from Honduras, who faces charges including lewd and lascivious behavior, battery, and molestation of a victim under 12 years old, according to ICE.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Los Angeles Times reported in 1992 that Brimmer was charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with minor boys between the ages of 9 and 15 while serving as a pastor at the Jubilee Christian Center.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Goggins, with many shirt buttons undone, is a libidinous waiter who takes his flirting with the mothers to extremes.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Their libidinous preoccupations, like those of the protagonists of Superbad, Booksmart and more recently Bottoms, are familiar.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • Indeed, Black women have historically been viewed by whites as unclean and licentious and therefore undeserving of protection.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 21 Aug. 2025
  • His strained, sandpaper-coarse timbre served as an ideal conduit for songs concerned with boisterous revelries, shady agreements, licentious intentions and musical pleasures.
    Bob Gendron, Chicago Tribune, 25 May 2025

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“Lecherous.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lecherous. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.

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