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.

Florence was then in the full flowering of literature and art; and in her overripe perfections the poison was distilling of greed and cruelty and lubricity and all loathsomeness.

From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah

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