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

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

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

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