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

There is considerable outspokenness, but not much lubricity, and no perverted morality.

From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.

Abbe Raynal, with his lubricity and loud loose rant, has spoken his word; and already the fast-hastening generation responds to another.

From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas

In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.

From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire