lubricity
Example Sentences
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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
Florence was then in the full flowering of literature and art; and in her overripe perfections the poison was distilling of greed and cruelty and lubricity and all loathsomeness.
From The Young Man and the World by Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah
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
A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
