lubricity

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From Hester Prynne to "family values" runs a line of anxious lubricity, of guilt and retribution.

From Time Magazine Archive

In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.

From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides

Satire is the pantomime of literature, and harlequin's jacket, his black vizor, and his eel-like lubricity, are so many harmless satires on the weak sides of our nature.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 358, February 28, 1829 by Various

Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.

From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Some, therefore, in pure simplicity and conscientious discharge of the duty they had assumed, but others, from lubricity of morals or the irritations of curiosity, pushed their investigations into unhallowed paths of speculation.

From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas