lubricity

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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

There is considerable outspokenness, but not much lubricity, and no perverted morality.

From Philip Massinger by Cruickshank, A. H.

I take this evanescence and lubricity of all objects, which lets them slip through our fingers then when we clutch hardest, to be the most unhandsome part of our condition.

From Essays — Second Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo

Wordsworth would never have spoken of "embellished Nature," "embroidered banks," or applied the word "elegant" to a rose, any more than he would have used "lubricity" or "stercoraceous" in verse.

From Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 26, August, 1880 of Popular Literature and Science by Various