lech
verb
to behave lecherously (towards); lust (after)
lech
1 British
/ lɛtʃ /
verb
noun
Lech
2
British
/ lɛk, lɛç /
noun
Etymology
Origin of lech
C19: back formation from lecher
Example Sentences
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The Hollywood Reporter characterized the portrayal as “a creepy beady-eyed lech peering out from under a mountain of latex.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2023
More than one of the women in this novel is a monster, more than one of the men is an easily manipulated dolt or lech, and its view of mental illness is antediluvian.
From New York Times ● Oct. 26, 2018
Was Mary's husband, Darnley, for instance, a womanizing lech as Vivat has it?
From Time Magazine Archive
The lech, the lyone, and the flour alſo, 2124 Yow worſchip them, yow ſerve them euermo; And ples the world as I have ſaid before; In gouernans thus ſtondith al thi glore.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
Bot god, the wich that is the ſoueran lech, 2072 Nedith no maner medyſyne to ſech; For ther is no Infyrmyte, nore wound, Bot as hyme lykith al is holl and ſound.
From Lancelot of the Laik A Scottish Metrical Romance by Walter W. (Walter William) Skeat
In Gdansk, she also met Poland's ex-president Lech Walesa, who led the 1980s Solidarity movement that provoked the downfall of the Communist regime in Warsaw.
From Barron's ● Jun. 26, 2026
In the pantheon of Cold War heroes, Vytautas Landsbergis deserves to stand alongside Lech Walesa.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 24, 2026
National Trust Cymru, which cares for the section of the Graig Lech gorge where Leah fell, said it had been informed of the incident.
From BBC ● Nov. 14, 2025
A better future shimmers on the page when Lech Wałęsa climbs over a fence as an unemployed electrician, taps someone on the shoulder and becomes “the face of the Polish revolution.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 27, 2025
The Elector, watching all this from just beyond the Lech, was in despair.
From The Battle of Blenheim by Hilaire Belloc
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