lecherous

Example Sentences

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Everybody has in the back of their mind the idea of fauns as lecherous forest creatures or fairies as deceitful shape-shifters.

From The Verge • Sep. 10, 2019

Even if his protagonists aren’t necessarily likable, he’s gifted at making them seem human — whether it’s a lecherous Southern California newscaster or the Mr. Burns of real-life political memory.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018

“I knew that was, of course, Stanley’s strong point, and that he was brilliant at picking great classical pieces,” said Malcolm McDowell, who played the lecherous lad in Kubrick’s 1971 satire, “A Clockwork Orange.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2018

The final-season episode “American Bitch,” a two-hander for guest-star Matthew Rhys and the show’s star and creator, Lena Dunham, was a late-in-the-game stunner, probing the cultural confusion around lecherous, literary men.

From New York Times • Dec. 4, 2017

Her face was assuredly not soft, sensual, or lecherous, but hard, wise, wholesome rather, signifying in a room full of sophisticated people the flesh and blood of life.

From Jacob's Room by Woolf, Virginia