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lecherous
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  • Lecherous Zeus turning into a bull to lure a pretty maiden.†  (source)
  • He's also married with a kid, you lecherous homewrecker.†  (source)
  • Follow me, and try to look a shade more lecherous and a shade less like the King's Hand.†  (source)
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  • Every morning before I was out the main gate I had one last impression that was both ordinary and unforgettable: a pyramid of turtles; the iridescent snout of a mandrill; the stately silence of a giraffe; the obese, yellow open mouth of a hippo; the beak-and-claw climbing of a macaw parrot up a wire fence; the greeting claps of a shoebill's bill; the senile, lecherous expression of a camel.†  (source)
  • "So it's the hard stuff yer wantin', is it?" he said, grinning lecherously.†  (source)
    lecherously = with an inappropriate sexual interest
  • The whole air and attitude of the form was one of stealthy cat-like obsequiousness; the whole expression of the face was concentrated in a wrinkled leer, compounded of cunning, lecherousness, slyness, and avarice.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • He caught her looking at him and gave her a wink ...a decidedly lecherous one.†  (source)
  • Tyler arched his eyebrows lecherously.†  (source)
  • If he was old and lecherous, she might say to him, "Warm?†  (source)
  • Berger yesterday had grinned lecherously at him over a sugar doughnut.†  (source)
  • 21 Nels Gudmundsson stood at a distance from the witness stand when it was his turn to question Susan Marie Heine: he did not want to appear lecherous by placing himself in close proximity to a woman of such tragic, sensual beauty.†  (source)
  • She stood in the speaker's pulpit of an unaired hall and looked at a flat sheet of faces, faces lecherously eager with the sense of their own virtue.†  (source)
  • Lecherous.†  (source)
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