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Definition of Lecherously
1. [adv]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Lecherously
Literary usage of Lecherously
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Charles Dudley Warner, Hamilton Wright Mabie, Lucia Isabella Gilbert Runkle, George H Warner (1902)
"... he wasted his goods in living lecherously. And after that he had ended all
things, a strong hunger was made in that country, and he began to have need. ..."
2. Pictures of Travel by Heinrich Heine (1856)
"... and that so meltingly, amorously and lecherously, that the reader would suppose
that the poet were a maiden suffering with nymphomania. ..."
3. The English Illustrated Magazine (1893)
"... little potboilers of short-skirted young ladies,or comic young gentlemen in
faultless evening clothes grinning lecherously a la Jan van Beers. ..."
4. Later Writings of Bishop Hooper: Together with His Letters and Other Pieces by John Hooper (1852)
"That is to be seen in the prodigal son, which when he had spent all his goods
lecherously, and brought himself to Luke most miserable poverty, ..."
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