lubricious

Related to lubricious: lugubrious, lascivious, nostrums

lu·bri·cious

(lo͞o-brĭsh′əs) also lu·bri·cous (lo͞o′brĭ-kəs)

adj.

a. Full of or displaying sexual desire: "They fell immediately into an orgy of lubricious kissing" (Joseph Heller).

b. Sexually stimulating; salacious: a book of lubricious photographs.

2. Having a slippery or smooth quality: "Throughout the empire a lubricious glaze of venality came to coat every governmental surface" (Cullen Murphy).

[Alteration of lubricous, from Latin lūbricus, slippery; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.]

lu·bri′cious·ly adv.

lu·bri′cious·ness n.

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lubricious

(luːˈbrɪʃəs) or

lubricous

adj

1. formal or literary lewd, lascivious

2. rare oily or slippery

[C16: from Latin lūbricus]

luˈbriciously, ˈlubricously adv

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lu•bri•cious

(luˈbrɪʃ əs)

adj.

1. arousing or expressive of sexual desire.

2. smooth and slippery.

[1575–85]

lu•bri′cious•ly, adv.

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Adj.	1.	lubricious - having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious" slippery, slippy - causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain"
	2.	lubricious - characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" lustful, prurient, salacious sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"

lubricious

adjective

1. So smooth and glassy as to offer insecure hold or footing:

slick, slippery, slithery.

Idiom: slippery as an eel.

2. Marked by treachery or deceit:

devious, disingenuous, duplicitous, guileful, indirect, shifty, sneaky, underhand, underhanded.

Translations

lubrico untuoso

lubricious

[luːˈbrɪʃəs] ADJ (frm or liter) (= lewd) → lascivo

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