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
Some, therefore, in pure simplicity and conscientious discharge of the duty they had assumed, but others, from lubricity of morals or the irritations of curiosity, pushed their investigations into unhallowed paths of speculation.
From Theological Essays and Other Papers — Volume 1 by De Quincey, Thomas
Yet I love facts, and hate lubricity and people without perception.
From Essays — First Series by Emerson, Ralph Waldo
In one epoch lubricity, in another fanaticism, in a third dulness and a dead-alive copying of the past, are the faults which criticism finds to attack.
From Froude's Essays in Literature and History With Introduction by Hilaire Belloc by Belloc, Hilaire
