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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
Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
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
Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.
—Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
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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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
Noun
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The career professionals at the Manhattan U.S. attorney’s office, led by Acting U.S. Attorney Danielle Sassoon, refused, as Bove’s plan was a perversion of the government’s power to prosecute for partisan political ends.—
New York Daily News Editorial Board,
New York Daily News,
3 Apr. 2025
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Everyone knows what a perversion fragmenting the Taj Mahal would be.—
Ralph Leonard,
The Atlantic,
4 Feb. 2025
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Charles’ ardor also applies to Herb’s former musical and romantic partner, Nell Mortimer (Mulligan).—
Peter Rainer,
The Christian Science Monitor,
25 Mar. 2025
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But any non-cynic can’t help but be swept up in its doomed ardor. 54.—
Will Leitch,
Vulture,
3 Mar. 2025
Noun
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Aside from the claims of overall impropriety and indecency, the men have made other individual claims against the chief.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
27 Mar. 2025
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Less than two years later in 1977, he was convicted of indecency with a 12-year-old girl and served just over three years in prison.—
Amanda Lee Myers,
USA TODAY,
5 Mar. 2025
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If the mother relied on devices, media, or a nanny to provide care, her children were widely believed to be in danger of sliding into degeneracy.—
Dan Piepenbring,
Harper's Magazine,
3 Mar. 2025
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Abraham Lincoln no longer speaks for the Republican Party, nor possibly America, as the degeneracy into primitive violence has taken the nation by the throat from the Bully Pulpit down to the mass shootings in schools.—
Kary Love,
Twin Cities,
7 Feb. 2025
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“Lechery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lechery. Accessed 13 Apr. 2025.
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