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Through it Nighy, playing a lecherous academic, came to wider attention.
Far from being the lecherous fat bloke whose photograph in fox-hunting kit the Daily Beast loves to reprint, he struck me as rather sensitive.
Thus, in 2012 the Republicans propose the female anti-sex bill, in which women are expressly forbidden from having sex with anyone other than the occasional lecherous politician who happens to hurl himself, bodily, sweatily, in her lucky, lucky path.
THE lecherous old lush is still on the cognac, even if there is sadly no news of the Swedish masseuses.
The anti-hero, Axel Vander, is a famous old literary critic, arrogant, lecherous and cruel, mendacious and a thief, possibly even a killer (Mr Banville's magic is that he makes one care about the monster).
Being heckled by stroppy public-sector unions (the fate of Patricia Hewitt, the health secretary) is an occupational hazard for reforming ministers, while, like the poor, Home Office cock-ups and lecherous old fools like John Prescott will always be with us.That is not to minimise the sheer awfulness of the mess Charles Clarke, the home secretary, has got himself and the government into.
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John Updike's "Rabbit" Angstrom is a lecherous car salesman whose best days were on a school basketball court.
Drawing on a popular Confucian love story, they saw the two sides as a loyal husband and faithful wife, America as the lecherous charmer and the 1945 division as rape.
John Gay's 1728 play "The Beggar's Opera" mocked the hypocrisy of lecherous aristocrats and politicians.Thomas Coram's Foundling Hospital opened in 1741 to look after the abandoned babies of unmarried mothers, attracting support from the cream of society.
That Mr Strauss-Kahn's reputation is so sullied and that Ms Diallo is now pursuing a civil case for damages is evidence that, even in France, such attitudes are dying out and that lecherous old men will not be able to get away with things as they once did.
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The word "lecherous" functions primarily as an adjective . Ludwig AI confirms that it modifies nouns to describe individuals or characters exhibiting excessive or offensive sexual desire. For example, "a lecherous academic" or "a lecherous old man".
Expression frequency: Very common
