lubricious
adjective
lu·bri·cious
lü-ˈbri-shəs 
variants
or lubricous
2
: having a smooth or slippery quality
a lubricious skin
lubriciously
adverb
Synonyms
Examples of lubricious in a Sentence
played a lubricious soap opera character who was in multiple relationships
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The sensational engine gathers the car's haunches to spew you onto the following straights in great, lubricious spendings of energy.
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Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
Pascal played lubricious movie star Dieter Bravo in Judd Apatow's semi-improvised comedy about a group of actors attempting to shoot a preposterous dinosaur movie during the pandemic.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
For all of Sabbath’s lubricious opportunism, Drenka is his one love.
—The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
Born in Louisiana, Silver arrives with every noir mystery woman’s attendant clichés: a lubricious walk, a wad of cash in the bosom of her complicated lingerie, a languorous way of lighting cigarettes — and a gun.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2018
Some of it is merely lubricious; some of it verges on the profound.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
Some of it is merely lubricious
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
Between the administration's budget, and its lubricious impulse to monetize everything, if the glaciers disappear, the naming rights to Exxon-Mobil National Park and Energy Terminal will bring in millions.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 May 2017
Spoiler alert: The lubricious details are absent from the narrative flow.
—Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
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Larry Griffin, Car and Driver, 24 Apr. 2023
Pascal played lubricious movie star Dieter Bravo in Judd Apatow's semi-improvised comedy about a group of actors attempting to shoot a preposterous dinosaur movie during the pandemic.
—Clark Collis, EW.com, 19 Apr. 2022
For all of Sabbath’s lubricious opportunism, Drenka is his one love.
—The New Yorker, 13 Dec. 2021
Born in Louisiana, Silver arrives with every noir mystery woman’s attendant clichés: a lubricious walk, a wad of cash in the bosom of her complicated lingerie, a languorous way of lighting cigarettes — and a gun.
—Jesse Green, New York Times, 14 May 2018
Some of it is merely lubricious; some of it verges on the profound.
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
Some of it is merely lubricious
—Ben Brantley, New York Times, 6 Oct. 2017
Between the administration's budget, and its lubricious impulse to monetize everything, if the glaciers disappear, the naming rights to Exxon-Mobil National Park and Energy Terminal will bring in millions.
—Charles P. Pierce, Esquire, 24 May 2017
Spoiler alert: The lubricious details are absent from the narrative flow.
—Logan Jenkins, sandiegouniontribune.com, 26 Apr. 2017
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“Lubricious.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/lubricious. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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