How to Use lechery in a Sentence

lechery

noun

• This Blog is here for a purpose—to fight pedophilia and znus [lechery], not for snide remarks, filthy comments or threats.
  — Linda Stasi, Harper's magazine, 16 Sep. 2019
• However, his deep-seated lechery overwhelmed his life and destroyed what might have been an idyllic ’50s youth for me.
  — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 31 Oct. 2020
• What’s more, the movie producer’s lechery has become the kind of story that takes on a life of its own, launching 1,000 takes on everything from politics to pop culture.
  — Will Bunch, Philly.com, 22 Oct. 2017
• The cold humor, which is lechery, which is seething debauchery, which is abomination itself.
  — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
• Hadleigh Adams emphasized wistful wisdom, not lechery, as Nicomedes.
  — Mark Swed, latimes.com, 14 June 2017
• At the same time, Mrs. Clinton, so close to becoming the first woman to win the White House amid national outrage over reports of her rival’s male lechery, has all but abandoned gender as an issue.
  — Amy Chozick, New York Times, 15 Oct. 2016
• And thus Dalton became a hunting ground where Epstein could target not just girls for his trademark lechery but other influential men to sponsor him.
  — Virginia Heffernan, Wired, 26 Aug. 2020
• But just in case a reader still has the stomach for more grotesquerie by the time the main narrative is finished, there’s a 70-page appendix filled with truncated tales of lascivious behavior — bonus nuggets of lechery.
  — Washington Post, 23 Oct. 2019
• In the 17th century, expressions such as suburb lechery and suburb sinner (meaning a prostitute) were common.
  — Ben Zimmer, The Atlantic, 31 July 2020
• With comic rebuttal, Post’s Christine deflected Fielding’s lechery throughout the series’ run.
  — Eric Sondheimer Columnist, Los Angeles Times, 9 Aug. 2021
• With comic rebuttal, Post's Christine deflected Fielding's lechery throughout the series' run.
  — Jake Coyle, ajc, 8 Aug. 2021
• This complex, though comprehensible, history — a tale of deceit, cruelty, murder, lechery and geopolitical ambition — is narrated at a clear, brisk pace by Julian Elfer, who gives special pleasure in the musical grace of his Italian pronunciation.
  — Katherine A. Powers, Washington Post, 26 Sep. 2019

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024