lubric
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lubric
1480–90; < Latin lūbricus slippery, smooth, Medieval Latin: lewd
Example Sentences
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So a courtier, having planned from his youth his career of ambition, struggles up the ladder, lubric and precipitous, to the top—to the very consummation of his hopes, and then falls back into the rubbish from which he has issued; and they who envied his fortune, now rejoice in his fall.
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Force, fraud, cunning, and all lubric arts and artifices, even the beguilements of rhetoric, found no favor with him, as modes of warfare or means of victory.
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"O wretched we! why were we hurried down This lubric and adulterate age!"
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He turned his head toward her and literally collided with a pair of lubric eyes under a narrow forehead and thick, straight hair, parted in the middle.
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