(n.) A man given to lewdness; one addicted, in an excessive degree, to the indulgence of sexual desire, or to illicit commerce with women.
(v. i.) To practice lewdness.
Example Sentences:
(1) From Africa, the archbishop of Kenya warned "the devil has entered the church", while a few days before the ceremony Robinson received a postcard from England, depicting the high altar of Durham cathedral and bearing the message: "You fornicating, lecherous pig."
(2) In Howard v. Lecher a majority of the ''Appellate Division of the Supreme Court denied a cause of action against an obstetrician alleged to be negligent in not properly advising a couple about the dangers they were running, as potential carriers, in having a child afflicted with Tay-Sachs disease.''
(3) Her lustful schoolgirl may be shockingly frank, but – like lecherous George – she's never demonised.
(4) It comes days after a homophobic diatribe which described the head of a United Nations commission on human rights in North Korea as a "disgusting old lecher" .
(5) Obscenity is lecherous and sullen in regard to women and virulent towards men: it may then be interpreted as a mean of struggle against the anxiety of death.
(6) Even if Clinton had made the remarks about Hillary's " bisexuality ", this still sounds like a lecher's spin on "my wife doesn't understand me".
(7) Puns too, especially lecherous ones, aren’t necessarily a skill women should seek to appropriate.
(8) Super-rich evil Arab sheikh Facebook Twitter Pinterest Kathleen Turner and Spiros Focas in The Jewel of the Nile Year Photograph: Alamy Too rich to know the value of anything, lecherous and obsessed with the American woman.
(9) The New York Times lecherously approved of her: "a quick, flashing smile, a pleasingly husky voice and a sense of humor add to the physical attributes not hidden by her Gypsy costumes".
Lechery
Definition:
(n.) Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.
(n.) Selfish pleasure; delight.
Example Sentences:
(1) You could hear it on Wilson's instrumental introduction to California Girls , its gorgeous, autumnal wistfulness at odds with the song's sunkissed lechery; and it seemed to have overwhelmed the band entirely on 1966's Pet Sounds, an impossibly sumptuous album on which even the most upbeat songs were shot through with yearning and loss and confusion.
(2) Yes, because if there's one thing the Daily Mail is known for – along with quasi-paedophile-like lechery over underage girls, an obsession with women's bodies and fertility, climate change denial and bitter snobbery against the working class – it's their deeply embedded contacts among Middle Eastern communities.
(3) Confessed criminality, allegations of lechery and charges of cover-up formed the backdrop to the Liberal Democrat campaign in Eastleigh, and so to emerge ahead was quite something.