lechery
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The solution was Verdon herself: She transforms an out-of-step ode to lechery into a revisionist two-hander about the sexism of memory, history, and show business.
From Slate ● Apr. 8, 2019
Hadleigh Adams emphasized wistful wisdom, not lechery, as Nicomedes.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 14, 2017
He looks upon the Trojan War, and all the warriors who risk their lives in it, with a vision that strips all noble motives away and sees only lechery, roguery, and knavery.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 9, 2016
She has dressed up as the Countess, and what Figaro overhears nearby as Susanna's acquiescence to the Count's lechery is in reality a song for him, a hymn to love's simple joys.
From The Guardian ● Feb. 14, 2013
Yes, for they too are slaves, and harsh enough are their taskmasters; slaves are they to luxury and lechery, intemperance and the wine-cup along with many a fond and ruinous ambition.
From The Economist by Henry Graham Dakyns
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