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Definition
inappropriately excessive in sexual interest or activity — usually said of men- He had a lecherous gleam in his eye.
lecherous = an inappropriate sexual interest
- a lecherous good-for-nothing
- Hanna took another sip of wine and noticed a forty-something guy staring lecherously at them.Sara Shepard -- Pretty Little Liars
- His eyes had a look of fear and of oddly lecherous anticipation.Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
- "He's also married with a kid, you lecherous homewrecker."Andy Weir -- The Martian
- Berger yesterday had grinned lecherously at him over a sugar doughnut.Judith Guest -- Ordinary People
- The more the rhonchial pack talks things out the more lecherous they become.Thomas Mann -- The Magic Mountain
- The lecherous and depraved old man was delighted with Hungry Joe's split lips and black-and-blue eyes.Joseph Heller -- Catch-22
- Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain.Aldous Huxley -- Brave New World
- She smiled and gave me a slow, lecherous looking over, laughing at my discomfiture.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- He was a wretched king .... vain, drunken, lecherous .... he would have set your sister aside, his own queen .... please ....George R.R. Martin -- A Clash of Kings
- Remorseless, treacherous, lecherous, kindless villain!William Shakespeare -- Hamlet, Prince of Denmark
- Tyler arched his eyebrows lecherously.Tom Clancy -- The Hunt for Red October
- "So it's the hard stuff yer wantin', is it?" he said, grinning lecherously.Ransom Riggs -- Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children
- "Follow me, and try to look a shade more lecherous and a shade less like the King's Hand.George R.R. Martin -- A Game of Thrones
- He caught her looking at him and gave her a wink ... a decidedly lecherous one.Stephen King -- The Shining
- 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.Ayn Rand -- The Fountainhead
- He winked so lecherously that Granma thought he had spoken and retorted, "Shut up, you sinful ol' goat.John Steinbeck -- The Grapes of Wrath
- She complained a good deal about the difficulties of avoiding the lecherous looks and touches of men in the street who could not keep away from her.John Steinbeck -- East of Eden
- My father compounded with my mother under the dragon's tail, and my nativity was under ursa major; so that it follows I am rough and lecherous.William Shakespeare -- King Lear
lecherously = with an inappropriate sexual interest