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
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In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
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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 ?
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
There is considerable outspokenness, but not much lubricity, and no perverted morality.
From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.