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Recent Examples of lechery
Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.
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The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
—Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2021
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The New Yorker, 24 Feb. 2025
Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.
—David Sims, The Atlantic, 25 May 2022
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
—Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
—Jeff McDonald, San Diego Union-Tribune, 9 Aug. 2021
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for lechery
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Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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Here are two real-life examples of this cycle of erotomania.—
Mark Travers,
Forbes,
27 Feb. 2024
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This eccentric delusion is clinically recognized as erotomania.—
Eric Taipale,
Discover Magazine,
14 Oct. 2022
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Marie is disciplined and principled, while her rebellious daughter prides herself on breaking the rules and reveling in lasciviousness.—
Lynnette Nicholas,
Essence,
30 Dec. 2025
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At the risk of annoying T.J. Clark by seeming to concentrate on the regions below the belt, one is obliged to observe that Picasso suffered from, or exulted in, a bad case of satyriasis that continued well into old age.—
John Banville,
The New Republic,
16 Nov. 2021
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Those who place responsibility on individuals and employers saw the ACA as perversion of the government’s purpose.—
Robert Applebaum,
The Conversation,
19 Dec. 2025
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There’s the younger wife who falls in love with the woman her husband hires for a threesome, then walks off 10 minutes later with a $210m settlement once Nash acquires video evidence of his extensive perversions.—
Alejandra Gularte,
Vulture,
5 Nov. 2025
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All that thinking has only strengthened my conviction that learning to love your face without objectification is a powerful way to counteract the damaging and distressing messages from a beauty culture that prizes youthfulness and hypersexuality.—
Valerie Monroe,
Allure,
10 Dec. 2025
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Grace’s playfully feral wantonness is funny and bewitching, but her schtick loses its luster for Jackson, who takes a job that keeps him away from home, leaving her with the baby.—
Katie Walsh,
Boston Herald,
6 Nov. 2025
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Yet even as Pym stalked him, slept with him, and pined after him, there was an element of unreality in her ardor, Harvey recalled.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
17 Nov. 2025
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That ardor has endured since its Sundance debut.—
Joe Reid,
Vulture,
17 Oct. 2025
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“Lechery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lechery. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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