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

The lech, the lyone, and the flour alſo, 2124 Yow worſchip them, yow ſerve them euermo; And ples the world as I have ſaid before; In gouernans thus ſtondith al thi glore.

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

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)