lubric
Americanadjective
Etymology
Origin of lubric
1480–90; < Latin lūbricus slippery, smooth, Medieval Latin: lewd
Example Sentences
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"O wretched we! why were we hurried down This lubric and adulterate age!"
From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold
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.
From The Underdogs, a Story of the Mexican Revolution by Munguía, E. (Enrique)
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.
From Eulogy on Chief-Justice Chase Delivered by William M. Evarts before the Alumni of Dartmouth College, at Hanover by Evarts, William Maxwell
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