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or lubricous
as in passionate
having a strong sexual desire
played a lubricious soap opera character who was in multiple relationships
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Recent Examples of lubricious
Whenever the lovers escape the family’s attention, the lighting designer Isabella Byrd throws deep shadows over their sometimes naked forms, turning their bodies into lubricious, moving Caravaggios.
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Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
Aside from Black’s deranged performance, the highlight of the film is Jennifer Coolidge, who plays a lubricious vice principal named Marlene.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
The sensational engine gathers the car's haunches to spew you onto the following straights in great, lubricious spendings of energy.
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Larry Griffin,
Car and Driver,
24 Apr. 2023
Pascal played lubricious movie star Dieter Bravo in Judd Apatow's semi-improvised comedy about a group of actors attempting to shoot a preposterous dinosaur movie during the pandemic.
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Clark Collis,
EW.com,
19 Apr. 2022
For all of Sabbath’s lubricious opportunism, Drenka is his one love.
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The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2021
Born in Louisiana, Silver arrives with every noir mystery woman’s attendant clichés: a lubricious walk, a wad of cash in the bosom of her complicated lingerie, a languorous way of lighting cigarettes — and a gun.
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Jesse Green,
New York Times,
14 May 2018
Helen Shaw,
New Yorker,
26 June 2025
Aside from Black’s deranged performance, the highlight of the film is Jennifer Coolidge, who plays a lubricious vice principal named Marlene.
—
Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
4 Apr. 2025
The sensational engine gathers the car's haunches to spew you onto the following straights in great, lubricious spendings of energy.
—
Larry Griffin,
Car and Driver,
24 Apr. 2023
Pascal played lubricious movie star Dieter Bravo in Judd Apatow's semi-improvised comedy about a group of actors attempting to shoot a preposterous dinosaur movie during the pandemic.
—
Clark Collis,
EW.com,
19 Apr. 2022
For all of Sabbath’s lubricious opportunism, Drenka is his one love.
—
The New Yorker,
13 Dec. 2021
Born in Louisiana, Silver arrives with every noir mystery woman’s attendant clichés: a lubricious walk, a wad of cash in the bosom of her complicated lingerie, a languorous way of lighting cigarettes — and a gun.
—
Jesse Green,
New York Times,
14 May 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for lubricious
Adjective
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It was captured as monarch and his eldest son visited the Natural History Museum in London to kick off the countdown to COP30, the annual United Nations climate change summit to be held the following month in Brazil, as both are passionate advocates for the environment.
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Alejandra Gomez, the executive director of the non-profit LUCHA, says that the moratorium emerged from the passionate advocacy of many Arizonans—and in the face of fierce counter-lobbying from the data center industry led by former Arizona Senator Kyrsten Sinema.
Adjective
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That’s why everything looks different in a cold pool versus a hot shower.
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Either way, El Niño is likely to remain a hot topic throughout 2026.
Adjective
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The 10-minute score, with begins with a virtuosic timpani solo, is meant to evoke the libidinous atmosphere in Mexico City dance clubs in the 1980s.
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The confrontations result in wild, libidinous killing.
Adjective
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Joseph is facing two charges of lewd and lascivious behavior in Florida and is out of jail on a $600,000 bond following an incident that allegedly occurred in 2020 and involved a 9-year-old girl, according to a probable cause affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.
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He was arrested on suspicion of sodomizing a person under 18, lewd and lascivious conduct with a child under 14 and first degree burglary.
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“Lubricious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubricious. Accessed 25 Jun. 2026.
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