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
Wordsworth would never have spoken of "embellished Nature," "embroidered banks," or applied the word "elegant" to a rose, any more than he would have used "lubricity" or "stercoraceous" in verse.
From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various
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
