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lubricity
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synonyms: licentiousness, lasciviousness, prurient, salacious, aselgeia, scortatory, pornerastic ???
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Definition:1. Smoothness; freedom from friction; also, property, which diminishes friction; as, the lubricity of oil.2. Slipperiness; instability; as, the lubricity of fortune.3. Lasciviousness; propensity to lewdness; lewdness; lechery; incontinency.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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As if wantonness and lubricity were essential to that poem.
Dryden.
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Cheating was the first thing anyone would think of with a man like Don, with that lubricious aura of his.
Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. Americanah, p.198 (2013)
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a garage said in its sleep— genuflection lubricity; and corrected itself to Gulflex Lubrication.
Vladimir Nabokov. Lolita
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addicted to the lubric a little
James Joyce. Ulysses
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