as in desire
sexual appetite
a story about a detective with a nose for crime and a lech for women
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Noun
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Negotiations continue, with both sides expressing a desire to reach a deal before Ascension Wisconsin providers fall out-of-network on Oct. 1.—
Sarah Volpenhein,
jsonline.com,
18 Aug. 2025 -
One episode involved Bondi’s desire to sit in the President’s box at the FIFA Club World Cup finals, in July, at the height of the Epstein uproar.—
Ruth Marcus,
New Yorker,
18 Aug. 2025
Noun
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Captain Joe touched the lives of many with his kindness, passion, and love for the water.—
David Goodhue
August 18,
Miami Herald,
19 Aug. 2025
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Jones was keen to capitalize on the boundless passion Americans had at the college level, and introducing pep rallies was a big way to entrench fans into the world of the Cowboys.—
Barry Levitt,
Time,
19 Aug. 2025
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The film, which features only two speaking roles, consists of seven conversations between a married couple with each flinch of resentment, lust, and morbid curiosity magnified at close range.—
Tiara Ataii,
Vulture,
24 June 2025
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There is nothing, these films insist, quite like that first blush (and flush) of love (and lust).—
Manuel Betancourt,
Variety,
28 July 2025
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Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.—
Terrance Hayes,
The New Yorker,
2 Dec. 2019
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Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs.—
Jill Ciment,
Harper's magazine,
10 June 2019
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“Lech.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lech. Accessed 23 Aug. 2025.
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