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单词 lecherous
释义

Definition of lecherous in English:

lecherous

adjective ˈlɛtʃ(ə)rəsˈlɛtʃ(ə)rəs
  • Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.

    淫荡的,好色的

    she ignored his lecherous gaze

    她不理睬他的淫荡的目光。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Magdelene is cheerfully lecherous and unabashedly lazy (as Huff puts it in the Afterword) which means that she's not going to hustle around saving people like a superhero.
    • Name the types of noises your lecherous Frenchman finds hilarious.
    Synonyms
    lustful, licentious, lascivious, libidinous, prurient, lewd, salacious, lubricious, debauched, dissolute, wanton, loose, fast, impure, unchaste, intemperate, dissipated, degenerate, sinful, depraved, crude, goatish
    sensual, libertine, promiscuous, carnal
    dirty, filthy, perverted, coarse, corrupt, indecent
    informal randy, horny, raunchy, pervy, naughty
    rare concupiscent, lickerish

Derivatives

  • lecherously

  • adverbˈlɛtʃ(ə)rəsli
    • The boy offered to pay a fine or whatever to get out of this, but the deputy told him there was only one way of getting out of this jam and looked lecherously at the young half-naked girl.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • In one of the earliest sequences of ‘Mo’ Better Blues,’ Spike Lee's new film about jazz, the camera lingers almost lecherously over the womanly curves of a trumpet and saxophone.
      • She reclined in a chair, opened a copy of Playboy, grinned lecherously, and reached for her briefs.
      • The Weasel, who may or may not be Valerie's father, lurks throughout the film, lecherously grinning and groping at the young girl.
      • Although lecherously swarmy as befits the character, the performance seems an ill fit for him, thus detracting from any otherwise superlative work.
  • lecherousness

  • nounˈlɛtʃərəsnəsˈlɛtʃ(ə)rəsnəs
    • Much has been written about the lecherousness of his smirks, but such provocativeness on his part definitely began in a presexual period.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Yet it lacks the wit, lecherousness or base rudeness that marks out the best of that strain of hip-hop.
      • He lived a life of extravagance and lecherousness, and had engaged in all sorts of evil conduct.
      • She herself makes the point that Venus gives her ‘desire and lecherousness’, though she does not say in what position the planet was; perhaps in Scorpio?
      • Ryo, the main character, is perpetually hot to trot, and his lecherousness is played for laughs, but that's about it.

Origin

Middle English: from Old French lecheros, from lecheor (see lecher).

Rhymes

treacherous

Definition of lecherous in US English:

lecherous

adjectiveˈlɛtʃ(ə)rəsˈleCH(ə)rəs
  • Having or showing excessive or offensive sexual desire.

    淫荡的,好色的

    she ignored his lecherous gaze

    她不理睬他的淫荡的目光。

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Magdelene is cheerfully lecherous and unabashedly lazy (as Huff puts it in the Afterword) which means that she's not going to hustle around saving people like a superhero.
    • Name the types of noises your lecherous Frenchman finds hilarious.
    Synonyms
    lustful, licentious, lascivious, libidinous, prurient, lewd, salacious, lubricious, debauched, dissolute, wanton, loose, fast, impure, unchaste, intemperate, dissipated, degenerate, sinful, depraved, crude, goatish

Origin

Middle English: from Old French lecheros, from lecheor (see lecher).

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