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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.
—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
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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Malinin, at the post-skate press conference following his world title victory, made his thoughts known in a passionate plea to the ISU (International Skating Union).—
Tyler Erzberger,
MSNBC Newsweek,
29 Mar. 2026
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Fans are going to be passionate.—
Joe Davidson,
Sacbee.com,
29 Mar. 2026
Adjective
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The play, like the movie, is loosely based on a robbery that took place in 1972, on a boiling-hot August day, when an eccentric, deep-in-debt Vietnam veteran named John Wojtowicz entered a Chase bank in Brooklyn with a gun and two accomplices, hoping for a quick score.—
Emily Nussbaum,
New Yorker,
2 Apr. 2026
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Rather than offering just the standard facials and massages (which are also on the menu), the spa has red and blue light therapy and a treatment where guests can alternate between a hot sauna and a cold plunge.—
Condé Nast,
Condé Nast Traveler,
2 Apr. 2026
Adjective
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Everyone—libidinous kids and adults alike—is alienated and groping for distraction, until tragedy strikes.—
The Atlantic Culture Desk,
The Atlantic,
21 Dec. 2025
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Much of the credit should be shared by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller, who wrote and produced this libidinous holiday rocker with Elvis in mind.—
Ed Masley,
AZCentral.com,
4 Dec. 2025
Adjective
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Both were charged with multiple counts of lewd and lascivious exhibition, indecent exposure, and resisting arrest.—
CBS News,
CBS News,
29 Mar. 2026
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Larry Leroy Candies was arrested on suspicion of eight counts of committing lewd and lascivious acts with a child younger than 14 years old, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office announced Friday afternoon in a news release.—
Rosalio Ahumada,
Sacbee.com,
27 Mar. 2026
Cite this Entry
“Lubricious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubricious. Accessed 6 Apr. 2026.
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