lubricous

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He did so, and then governed like an evil-disposed boy—indulging the merest animal passions, listening to a small camarilla of low-born favourites, changing his ministers every three months, and acting on the impulse of whims which were sometimes mere buffoonery, but were at times lubricous, or ferocious.

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With lubricous zeal, she and her homosexual brother compete for the lodger's favors.

From Time Magazine Archive

These faintly lubricous difficulties are ultimately straightened out in a court trial.

From Time Magazine Archive

Peter Sellers is perfectly hilarious as a lubricous bookworm, a wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan.

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Peter Sellers is perfectly hilarious as a lubricous bookworm, a wan don who thinks he is a Don Juan.

From Time Magazine Archive