lech

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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

Bot god, the wich that is the ſoueran lech, 2072 Nedith no maner medyſyne to ſech; For ther is no Infyrmyte, nore wound, Bot as hyme lykith al is holl and ſound.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Llech signifies a stone in Welsh, and is pronounced in a way peculiar to the Welsh; when simple it is llech, when compounded lech.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 342, November 22, 1828 by Various