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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. 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
  • As his star has risen, the performer born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio has become the most passionate and effective ambassador in Puerto Rican history.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Stay open to rapid communication, travel opportunities, or passionate connections.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And if blue isn’t your style, the Resurgence belt bag is also on sale in hot pink for 14 percent off.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Or, better yet, at the uber-hot, gods-only party taking place at the Acropolis.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Goggins, with many shirt buttons undone, is a libidinous waiter who takes his flirting with the mothers to extremes.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Their libidinous preoccupations, like those of the protagonists of Superbad, Booksmart and more recently Bottoms, are familiar.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025

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“Lubricious.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lubricious. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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