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
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
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 ?
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
