lecherous

Example Sentences

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Everybody has in the back of their mind the idea of fauns as lecherous forest creatures or fairies as deceitful shape-shifters.

From The Verge • Sep. 10, 2019

Even if his protagonists aren’t necessarily likable, he’s gifted at making them seem human — whether it’s a lecherous Southern California newscaster or the Mr. Burns of real-life political memory.

From Washington Post • Dec. 20, 2018

“I knew that was, of course, Stanley’s strong point, and that he was brilliant at picking great classical pieces,” said Malcolm McDowell, who played the lecherous lad in Kubrick’s 1971 satire, “A Clockwork Orange.”

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 20, 2018

Some, however, are concerned that the Weinstein saga is unfairly tarring men with the same brush of scandal — that those who might be considered merely lecherous are being conflated with predators.

From Seattle Times • Nov. 2, 2017

Shall we look to the sweater, the chattel-mortgage shark, the lecherous merchant, to reform themselves?

From White Slaves; or, the Oppression of the Worthy Poor by Banks, Louis Albert