lech
Example Sentences
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The Hollywood Reporter characterized the portrayal as “a creepy beady-eyed lech peering out from under a mountain of latex.”
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023
More than one of the women in this novel is a monster, more than one of the men is an easily manipulated dolt or lech, and its view of mental illness is antediluvian.
From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018
Was Mary's husband, Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it?
From Time Magazine Archive
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Sche ſall ſice conſell if one to the two, 2116 The lyone and the ſouerane lech alſo, Yow ſall not Ned yi drem̅ for to diſpar, Nor ȝhit no thing that is in thi contrare.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
The lech, the lyone, and the flour alſo, 2124 Yow worſchip them, yow ſerve them euermo; And ples the world as I have ſaid before; In gouernans thus ſtondith al thi glore.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)
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