| 单词 | lechery |
| 释义 | lechery (once / 21848 pages) n Lechery is a noun applied to a person's feelings that are lustful or sexual in an extreme or unnatural way. A person's lechery may lead to wrong and unlawful physical acts or attacks on others, or to the making and viewing of inappropriate pictures and movies. Someone described as a "pervert" might also be called a lecher, whose offensive behavior and actions are lechery. Attraction between a husband and wife would not be lechery, because it's between two people who have a desire together. Lechery is a one-sided lust that crosses the line to being inappropriate and making others feel very uncomfortable or even afraid. Bad guys or "Casanovas" in literature demonstrate lechery when they try to win over innocent young women with lies. WORD FAMILYlechery: lecheries+/lech: lechery, leches USAGE EXAMPLESHe is a singer who makes fireworks of lechery, sunbeams of regret. New York Times(Nov 28, 2016) That's 50+ years of lechery about to blow up in October of an election year. New York Times(Oct 14, 2016) The first female president may end up owing some of the margin of her victory to outrage about male lechery. New York Times(Oct 11, 2016) n unrestrained indulgence in sexual activity Hyper sex, sex activity, sexual activity, sexual practice activities associated with sexual intercourse |
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