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
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
A young constitution still resisted the inroads of lubricity.
From The Magic Skin by Marriage, Ellen
He slid, as it were, into the confidence of all, with the easy lubricity of the serpent, and with not a little of its wiliness.
From The Comic History of Rome by Becket, Gilbert Abbott ?
