How to Use lecherous in a Sentence

lecherous

adjective
  • There must be some nasty owners at burger franchises and foul-mouthed, lecherous chefs at truck-stop diners, too.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • What lecherous villain would compile such numbers?
    — Literary Hub, 15 Oct. 2025
  • Planes flattened, lecherous satyrs popped up, border garlands grew sensual fruits.
    — Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Under his charge, she's carted to the barracks as a singing reminder of home for lecherous, drunken soldiers who have no interest in her voice.
    — Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 21 Aug. 2019
  • There’s a fiery diss track in which Girls5eva dump their lecherous manager, Larry Plumb.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
  • Thinking back to the earliest seasons, Kiesha was always the target of lecherous older men.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
  • The lecherous turtle, being nearsighted, keeps making passes at plastic hard hats.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 28 July 2022
  • The Brothers Karamazov tells the story of three brothers and their father, a despotic, greedy and lecherous man.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Anne and Victoria eventually got jobs in service to a different lord, one who was quite abusive and lecherous.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • The Brothers Karamazov centers on three brothers and their father, a despotic, greedy and lecherous man.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • This one features two warring siblings, a lecherous uncle, an ex-mistress, and members of the household who are very conspicuous by their absence.
    — Carole Sovocool, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
  • Until then, Saxena shows us how Hooters remains, like one of their lecherous male customers, on the wrong side of history.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 June 2018
  • Only a person full of entitlement and lecherous self-interest and devoid of morality preys on others in such a manner.
    — Amanda Carpenter, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
  • LeFou spends much of the movie hinting at his affection for his lecherous friend, but LeFou, too, earns a chance for redemption toward the end.
    — Jake Coyle, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The lecherous young prosecutor who was a menace to any woman within earshot has grown into a more emotionally complex person.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
  • But aside from being a devoted brother, the predatory Connie also a clever, lecherous user of people.
    — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Others spoke about Biden's physical behavior, which came across to many as lecherous and unbecoming of a future commander in chief.
    — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Orgon, a wealthy bourgeois who has taken a much younger second wife, signs over his soul to Tartuffe, a lecherous swindler who poses as a saint while pursuing a diabolical agenda.
    — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 19 July 2024
  • The cultural legacy of Pepé Le Pew, a lecherous skunk who speaks in a French accent, has come under scrutiny in recent days.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • But a more critical event in his life was a scandal involving John Wilkes, who was famously ugly, brilliant, radical, and lecherous.
    — Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 8 June 2026
  • Of the women, a lifeguard-in-training played by Alexandra Daddario comes well-armed with withering put-downs of Efron’s lecherous Lothario.
    — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
  • Sancho Panza is too often lecherous and gluttonous; Isaac Akiba was a cheerful young monk with a healthy appetite and an innocent eye for the ladies.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Cornwell’s Merlin is one of the last of his kind, a lecherous old schemer, intent on preserving Britain and its old druidic ways in the face of encroaching Christianity.
    — Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
  • The rather disturbing joke is that, even with his fake teeth, terrible toupée, and lecherous leer, Toni fits in a lot better in Ines’s urban world than aw-shucks-y Winifried ever could.
    — Mike Hogan, HWD, 20 Jan. 2017
  • They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.
    — Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Although all signs point to the woman's lecherous boss as her kidnapper, Morgan is convinced the Game Maker is ultimately behind the crime.
    — Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025
  • She was initially cleared of the charges of violating the country’s strict anti-pornography laws by distributing the recording in a bid to expose the man’s history of lecherous behavior.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 26 July 2019
  • Nuril was initially cleared of the charges of violating the country’s strict anti-pornography laws by distributing the recording in a bid to expose the man’s history of lecherous behavior.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2019
  • The next most famous is Sir Les Patterson, an ever-drunk, disheveled and lecherous Australian cultural attache.
    — Rod McGuirk, al, 23 Apr. 2023
  • Jess Braddock is frustrated living in the Everglades with her baby, ex-boyfriend — an aspiring reality star whose idea of acting is whipping off his shirt — and his lecherous friend.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 25 May 2023

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