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Meanings of lechery in English

Excessive indulgence in sensual pleasures.

      Usage of lechery in English
      1
      It's not lechery, she's writing to me because we fell in love.
      All That Is
      2
      His fame had rested on lechery, alcoholism, reckless driving, and draft evasion.
      Cat’s Cradle
      3
      But if she married someone poor, like Andrew, it was obviously lechery.
      The new yorker
      4
      Nor pale Religion's lechery call that virginity that wishes but acts not!
      English Poets of the Eighteenth Century
      5
      Who's that to speak of lechery when he's too old to remember it?'
      Night of Knives
      6
      Hungry? He slipped a hand over her taut, jeans-clad bottom with counterfeit lechery.
      The Shining
      7
      Thing is, Uncle, for all his lechery, is pretty professional about his job.
      Sister Mine
      8
      There are worse faults to be laid to his account than lechery and extravagance.
      The Man Shakespeare and His Tragic Life Story
      9
      We, verily, have forbidden you lechery, and not that which is conducive to fidelity.
      The Summons of the Lord of Hosts
      10
      Her body was so thin and dirty that it was no incitement to lechery.
      For Love Of Evil
      11
      In any case, young Africans develop early, and the lechery of the race is proverbial.
      Saint Augustin
      12
      There Pyrrus deserted Christianity and returned to the filth of his old lechery and paganism.
      The Deeds of God Through the Franks
      13
      His name shall be a stench while the world stands, for treachery, tyranny, and lechery.
      Sketches of the Covenanters
      14
      There was even something else in his eyes: the lechery that Thyrsus had hinted at.
      The Memoirs of Cleopatra
      15
      He makes robbery his purchase, lechery his solace, mirth his exercise, and drunkenness his glory.
      Character Writings of the Seventeenth Century
      16
      Casual lechery being served at a high price.
      Shadows in Bronze
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