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

How huge a beaste is lechery? how rauenous and insaciable is ryot? howe wylde a beast is dronkenshyp? how hurtfull a thing is anger? how horrible is ambicion?

From The Education of Children by Sherry, Richard