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Lubricious

//luˈbɹɪʃəs// adj

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Smooth and glassy; slippery.
  2. 2
    Lewd, lascivious, obscene, wanton, salacious or lecherous. figuratively

    "His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony."

Adjective
  1. 1
    characterized by lust wordnet
  2. 2
    having a smooth or slippery quality wordnet

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.

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