lechery

Noun

Meaning

Free indulgence of lust; lewdness.

Selfish pleasure; delight.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

lewdness fornication animalism desire vice corruption passion sexuality hunger lust dissipation thirst impurity immorality obscenity

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Antonyms

puritanism good honor integrity morality purity

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Hypernyms

sex sex activity sexual activity sexual practice

Related terms

lech lecher lecherous

Anagrams

cheerly

Examples

Already I am no longer looked at with lechery or love. Gwendolyn Brooks

There is to some men a great Lechery in Lying, and imposing on the understandings of beleeving people. John Aubrey

Kinkiness comes from low energy. It's the substitution of lechery for lust. Germaine Greer

Lechery, lechery still wars and lechery nothing else holds fashion. William Shakespeare

It provokes the desire but it takes away the performance. Therefore much drink may be said to be an equivocator with lechery it makes him and it mars him it sets him on and it takes him off. William Shakespeare

He who wants to conquer lechery must flee from it. French Proverb

Close letter words and terms

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