How to Use lecherous in a Sentence

lecherous

adjective
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  • There’s a fiery diss track in which Girls5eva dump their lecherous manager, Larry Plumb.
    — Tyler Coates, The Hollywood Reporter, 2 June 2022
  • LeFou spends much of the movie hinting at his affection for his lecherous friend, but LeFou, too, earns a chance for redemption toward the end.
    — Jake Coyle, Orange County Register, 16 Mar. 2017
  • The Brothers Karamazov tells the story of three brothers and their father, a despotic, greedy and lecherous man.
    — Dallas News, 3 Mar. 2022
  • Of the women, a lifeguard-in-training played by Alexandra Daddario comes well-armed with withering put-downs of Efron’s lecherous Lothario.
    — Soren Andersen, The Seattle Times, 24 May 2017
  • There must be some nasty owners at burger franchises and foul-mouthed, lecherous chefs at truck-stop diners, too.
    — Pete Wells, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2023
  • Under his charge, she's carted to the barracks as a singing reminder of home for lecherous, drunken soldiers who have no interest in her voice.
    — Garrett Mitchell, azcentral, 21 Aug. 2019
  • Thinking back to the earliest seasons, Kiesha was always the target of lecherous older men.
    — Nina Metz, chicagotribune.com, 19 July 2021
  • The cultural legacy of Pepé Le Pew, a lecherous skunk who speaks in a French accent, has come under scrutiny in recent days.
    — NBC News, 9 Mar. 2021
  • Then the sound of the tires on the gray asphalt, like lecherous whispers in the middle of the night: two o’clock in the morning, in a stream of quiet, powerful, brightly colored cars in which new, free Jews sit two by two, male and female.
    — Amos Oz, Harper's magazine, 10 Apr. 2019
  • The Brothers Karamazov centers on three brothers and their father, a despotic, greedy and lecherous man.
    — Dallas News, 17 Feb. 2022
  • The rather disturbing joke is that, even with his fake teeth, terrible toupée, and lecherous leer, Toni fits in a lot better in Ines’s urban world than aw-shucks-y Winifried ever could.
    — Mike Hogan, vanityfair.com, 20 Jan. 2017
  • Until then, Saxena shows us how Hooters remains, like one of their lecherous male customers, on the wrong side of history.
    — Aaron Gilbreath, Longreads, 23 June 2018
  • He is depicted as lecherous but harmless, silly and creepy.
    — New York Times, 26 Aug. 2019
  • And thus, the course of religious history and beginning of the English Reformation was launched with the lecherous desires of a 40-something monarch.
    — Petula Dvorak, Washington Post, 17 May 2018
  • Sancho Panza is too often lecherous and gluttonous; Isaac Akiba was a cheerful young monk with a healthy appetite and an innocent eye for the ladies.
    — Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 17 Mar. 2023
  • Anne and Victoria eventually got jobs in service to a different lord, one who was quite abusive and lecherous.
    — Absurdity, Vulture, 2 Dec. 2022
  • But everything seems a bit off this year, beginning with the fact that the producers have forced Betsy to take on Archie Morris, the lecherous star of another popular cooking show, as co-host.
    — Karen MacPherson, Washington Post, 16 Mar. 2023
  • That was my career experience for a long time: navigating lecherous men who had power over me.
    — Claire Shaffer, Rolling Stone, 11 June 2021
  • This one features two warring siblings, a lecherous uncle, an ex-mistress, and members of the household who are very conspicuous by their absence.
    — Carole Sovocool, Robb Report, 21 Apr. 2023
  • The next most famous is Sir Les Patterson, an ever-drunk, disheveled and lecherous Australian cultural attache.
    — Rod McGuirk, al, 23 Apr. 2023
  • But aside from being a devoted brother, the predatory Connie also a clever, lecherous user of people.
    — Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2017
  • Others spoke about Biden's physical behavior, which came across to many as lecherous and unbecoming of a future commander in chief.
    — Joseph Simonson, Washington Examiner, 31 Jan. 2020
  • Planes flattened, lecherous satyrs popped up, border garlands grew sensual fruits.
    — Colton Valentine, The New Yorker, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Only a person full of entitlement and lecherous self-interest and devoid of morality preys on others in such a manner.
    — Amanda Carpenter, Time, 30 Oct. 2019
  • Throughout the show's second season, both Ginny and the audience learned the whole truth of Georgia's past, as the teen struggled with processing that her mother murdered her lecherous stepfather Kenny to protect her.
    — Quinci Legardye, Harper's BAZAAR, 8 Jan. 2023
  • The novel begins with a subplot: A woman running a boardinghouse in the postbellum U.S. South describes, in a letter to her sister, her efforts to manage a handsome, lecherous boarder.
    — Maggie Doherty, The New Republic, 16 June 2023
  • She was initially cleared of the charges of violating the country’s strict anti-pornography laws by distributing the recording in a bid to expose the man’s history of lecherous behavior.
    — Greg Norman, Fox News, 26 July 2019
  • Nuril was initially cleared of the charges of violating the country’s strict anti-pornography laws by distributing the recording in a bid to expose the man’s history of lecherous behavior.
    — Fox News, 6 July 2019
  • The lecherous young prosecutor who was a menace to any woman within earshot has grown into a more emotionally complex person.
    — Joshua Alston, Variety, 17 Jan. 2023
  • The lecherous turtle, being nearsighted, keeps making passes at plastic hard hats.
    — Kyle Smith, WSJ, 28 July 2022

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