How to Use lechery in a Sentence

lechery

noun
  • The cold humor, which is lechery, which is seething debauchery, which is abomination itself.
    — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • Hadleigh Adams emphasized wistful wisdom, not lechery, as Nicomedes.
    — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
  • And thus Dalton became a hunting ground where Epstein could target not just girls for his trademark lechery but other influential men to sponsor him.
    — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
  • In the 17th century, expressions such as suburb lechery and suburb sinner (meaning a prostitute) were common.
    — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 31 July 2020
  • What’s more, the movie producer’s lechery has become the kind of story that takes on a life of its own, launching 1,000 takes on everything from politics to pop culture.
    — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
  • Mingus agreed to join him for moral support, but when Albee, whether through nonchalance or lechery, answered the door wearing nothing but a beltless bathrobe, Mingus balked and hightailed it out of there.
    — Literary Hub, 12 Dec. 2025
  • With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
    — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
  • With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
    — Jake Coyle, orlandosentinel.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • With comic rebuttal, Post's Christine deflected Fielding's lechery throughout the series' run.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 8 Aug. 2021
  • But just in case a reader still has the stomach for more grotesquerie by the time the main narrative is finished, there’s a 70-page appendix filled with truncated tales of lascivious behavior — bonus nuggets of lechery.
    — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
  • This complex, though comprehensible, history — a tale of deceit, cruelty, murder, lechery and geopolitical ambition — is narrated at a clear, brisk pace by Julian Elfer, who gives special pleasure in the musical grace of his Italian pronunciation.
    — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019

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