lubricity
Example Sentences
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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
A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
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
