What's the difference between lecherous and rammy?
Lecherous
Definition:
(a.) Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; lustful; also, lust-provoking.
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".
Rammy
Definition:
(a.) Like a ram; rammish.
Example Sentences:
(1) Not so much reasoned argument as, in Glaswegian parlance, a right good stairheid rammy .
(2) At the time, he expressed concern that the contest could become "a highly emotive and deeply personalised public rammy [fight]" , with the dangers of lasting division becoming greater if the result was a very close one.
(3) 3.02pm BST 2 min: "Not sure who the QPR mascot is, but he (or she) will need to go some to beat Rammie the Ram, who was the star of the semi-final for me," says Simon McMahon.