lech

Example Sentences

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The Hollywood Reporter characterized the portrayal as “a creepy beady-eyed lech peering out from under a mountain of latex.”

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2023

More than one of the women in this novel is a monster, more than one of the men is an easily manipulated dolt or lech, and its view of mental illness is antediluvian.

From New York Times • Oct. 26, 2018

Was Mary's husband, Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it?

From Time Magazine Archive

Bot god, the wich that is the ſoueran lech, 2072 Nedith no maner medyſyne to ſech; For ther is no Infyrmyte, nore wound, Bot as hyme lykith al is holl and ſound.

From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Skeat, Walter W. (Walter William)

Perhaps it may not be amiss to inform you that the word cromlech, or cromleh, is derived from the Welsh words crom, feminine of crwm, crooked, and lech, a flat stone.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 by Various