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
Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
It was the first of these factors that produced the lubricity that defiles and the lack of moral earnestness that weakens such a large proportion of the literature of this age.
From Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal by Butler, Harold Edgeworth
He slid, as it were, into the confidence of all, with the easy lubricity of the serpent, and with not a little of its wiliness.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
