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Recent Examples of lechery
With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
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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
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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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
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
Noun
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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
Noun
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The element of perversion, the artistic touch, in that Calvin Klein ad was Shields’s age, which was fifteen.—
Doreen St. Félix,
New Yorker,
2 Aug. 2025
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This is a direct perversion of what’s supposed to be the apolitical branch.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
30 Mar. 2025
Noun
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To Kivel’s credit, these passages on the ardor of creation are some of the only parts of the book that seem based on a writer’s life.—
Lora Kelley,
New Yorker,
7 Aug. 2025
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Ultimately her ardor for and abiding faith in literature, especially writing by Black women poets and writers, inspired her to found Well-Read Black Girl, an innovative, impactful, and award-winning nonprofit literary organization.—
Donna Seaman
June 18,
Literary Hub,
18 June 2025
Noun
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They are reportedly charged with disorderly conduct, public indecency/indecent exposure, and criminal trespass, according to Reuters, with a court date yet to be established.—
Jacob Lev,
CNN Money,
8 Aug. 2025
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Vega was convicted in 1999 in Brazos County, Texas, for indecency with a child, who was 12 at the time.—
Jim Woods,
Chicago Tribune,
7 Aug. 2025
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Trump has been tied to Epstein, and though there is no evidence exposing the president’s participation in Epstein’s acts of degeneracy, the question remains on the minds of many Americans — Was Trump complicit?—
Letters to the Editor,
The Orlando Sentinel,
27 July 2025
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The nihilism, or the degeneracy, is coming straight from the White House.—
Nina Bambysheva,
Forbes.com,
12 May 2025
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“Lechery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lechery. Accessed 21 Aug. 2025.
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