lech

noun

ˈlech How to pronounce lech (audio)
Definition of lechnext
as in desire
sexual appetite a story about a detective with a nose for crime and a lech for women

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  1. desire
  2. passion
  3. lust
  4. letch
Noun
  • Before leaving Hawaii, Kobayashi had expressed a desire to disconnect from modern technology, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
    Amanda Musa, CNN, 15 Dec. 2024
  • But absent a dedicated desire to solve them, they could be viewed as tediously boring compared to leading the nation on sweeping national issues and global diplomacy.
    George Skelton, Los Angeles Times, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of desire
Noun
  • Completing the trifecta of air, land, and sea, Anthony has maintained his passion for rowing, sitting as a board member of the Monica Burguera Foundation, which focuses on safety education for boaters.
    Kyle J. Russell, USA TODAY, 16 Dec. 2024
  • One of the apprentices, who had a passion for adding saffron to the molten glass, hit on the idea of making the plain risotto for the wedding dinner turn gold like his windows.
    Anthony Lane, The New Yorker, 16 Dec. 2024
Definition of passion
Noun
  • Scott’s Tom Ripley was a clean break from that of Matt Damon; instead of a petulant pretty boy seized by envy and lust, this Ripley was older (Scott is in his late forties) and scarier, a lonesome manipulator with a murderous gleam in his eye.
    Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 9 Dec. 2024
  • Slater’s mansion is terra-cotta red, which in cinematic color theory signals danger and lust; the snakes on the island are yellow, for sickness and deceit.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
Definition of lust
Noun
  • Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges.
    Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, 2 Dec. 2019
  • Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs.
    Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, 10 June 2019
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