lubricious

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The task of pulling the world back from nuclear war and annihilation falls to the lubricious Walter, who is irresponsible but cunning and determined.

From New York Times • Jun. 19, 2015

Playwright Sandra Deer has created a clan of faded gentry who mingle the greed of the family in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes with the lubricious dementia of Beth Henley's Crimes of the Heart.

From Time Magazine Archive

Because Actress West's manner of dealing with her material is light-hearted rather than lubricious, Vm No Angel, like She Done Him Wrong, is much more amusing than offensive.

From Time Magazine Archive

The great number of severe accidents annually caused by the idiotic custom of casting orange-peel and such other lubricious integuments recklessly about the side-walks, has long furnished a topic for public animadversion.

From Punchinello, Volume 1, No. 02, April 9, 1870 by Various