Both Uses of
lecherous
in
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
- A figure that had seemed to him by day demure and innocent came towards him by night through the winding darkness of sleep, her face transfigured by a lecherous cunning, her eyes bright with brutish joy.†
Chpt 2 *
- God had allowed him to see the hell reserved for his sins: stinking, bestial, malignant, a hell of lecherous goatish fiends.†
Chpt 3
Definition:
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(lecherous) inappropriately excessive in sexual interest or activity -- usually said of men