lubricity
Example Sentences
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From Hester Prynne to "family values" runs a line of anxious lubricity, of guilt and retribution.
From Time Magazine Archive
In close quarters he suffered their backwoods lubricity and knucklehead talk.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Abbe Raynal, with his lubricity and loud loose rant, has spoken his word; and already the fast-hastening generation responds to another.
From The French Revolution by Carlyle, Thomas
He slid, as it were, into the confidence of all, with the easy lubricity of the serpent, and with not a little of its wiliness.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
Florence was then in the full flowering of literature and art; and in her overripe perfections the poison was distilling of greed and cruelty and lubricity and all loathsomeness.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
