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[ US /ˈɫɛtʃɝəs/ ]
[ UK /lˈɛt‍ʃəɹəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity
    a lecherous gleam in his eye
    a lecherous good-for-nothing

How To Use lecherous In A Sentence

  • Reuters distributes this shot which, from the way everyone is caught in the moment, seems to capture Obama ogling, or at least gamely distracted by this junior G-8 delegate (set up by the notorious Sarkozy seeming to also look on lecherously). Michael Shaw: Reading the Pictures: Reuters Obama Booty Call
  • The leader tries to seduce Kirk while Rosie stares daggers, Billie tries to make time with the lunkhead and all of the women avoid the lecherous behaviour of the crusty father.
  • I would the Duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because 165 they are lecherous. Measure for Measure The Works of William Shakespeare [Cambridge Edition] [9 vols.]
  • Much has been written about the lecherousness of his smirks, but such provocativeness on his part definitely began in a presexual period.
  • He sees in her a vision of the powerful love he now regrets leaving behind, and he becomes lecherously attached to her, conspiring to keep her close to him under the guise of helping her father, his friend. Come and Get It
  • He was raucous, bibulous, lecherous and with a genius for showing an equal contempt for the common man and those in power. Simon Jenkins: Half a Century After Mencken's Death, Opinion Is What is Riding High
  • Name the types of noises your lecherous Frenchman finds hilarious.
  • You're nothing more than a lecherous snake in the grass, Shawn.
  • 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.
  • I would the duke we talk of were returned again: this ungenitured agent will unpeople the province with continency; sparrows must not build in his house-eaves, because they are lecherous. Act III. Scene II. Measure for Measure
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