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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
Noun
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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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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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With respect to gender roles, for instance, the aggressive zombies incarnate a warped and rotted form of traditional masculinity, a perversion of the warrior ideal.—
Katy Waldman,
New Yorker,
9 Aug. 2025
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Spaces that seem most interested in the permissiveness of perversion.—
Hazlitt,
Hazlitt,
25 June 2025
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In her method of evasion, Bailey soon began to develop an ardor for book collecting.—
Olivia Cyrus,
Sacbee.com,
10 Aug. 2025
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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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Stern, who is 71, first signed with Sirius in 2004 (prior to its merger with XM), in part to be free of oversight by the FCC, which had levied millions of dollars in fines on terrestrial radio stations that carried his show for alleged indecency.—
Todd Spangler,
Variety,
4 Sep. 2025
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Howard is still facing four charges that stemmed from the investigation, including one count of official misconduct, making an unlawful proposition, public indecency and public nudity.—
Noe Padilla,
IndyStar,
28 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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In my experience, the lid looseness is simply a feeling, not an actual problem.—
Emily Johnson,
Bon Appetit Magazine,
20 Aug. 2025
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“Lechery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lechery. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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