Crossword-Solution: LECHERY
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Lechery | n. | Free indulgence of lust; lewdness. |
| Lechery | n. | Selfish pleasure; delight. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| LECHERY | anagram | CHEERLY |
We have 12 clues for the answer “LECHERY”
| Clue | Answers |
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| "Lolita" subject | 1 answer |
| Dissolute behavior | 1 answer |
| FREE indulgence of lust | 1 answer |
| INDULGENCE of lust | 1 answer |
| eroticism | 9 answers |
| concupiscence | 27 answers |
| jobbery | 63 answers |
| Itch | 64 answers |
| Lust | 65 answers |
| foulness | 69 answers |
| ASSAULT ___ | 75 answers |
| Passion | 78 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
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discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
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Hint 2 anagram
CEEZMA
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with LECHERY (5)
Yes, sir, I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question; for is not he corpus naturale? and is not that mobile? then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty foot of the place of execution, although I do not doubt to see you both hanged the next sessions.
And they be so covetous, that, for a little silver, they sell their daughters, their sisters and their own wives to put them to lechery.
And the form of his bed is of fine sapphires, bended with gold, for to make him sleep well and to refrain him from lechery; for he will not lie with his wives, but four sithes in the year, after the four seasons, and that is only for to engender children.
You are deceived, for I will tell you: yet, if you were not dunces, you would never ask me such a question; for is he not corpus naturale? and is not that mobile? then wherefore should you ask me such a question? But that I am by nature phlegmatic, slow to wrath, and prone to lechery (to love, I would say), it were not for you to come within forty foot of the place of execution, although I do not doubt but to see you both hanged the next sessions.
Then I can shew you lying, foppery, vanity, cowardice, bragging, lechery, impotence, and ugliness in another piece; and yet one of these is a celebrated beauty, and t’other a professed beau.
Quotes with LECHERY (3)
Wine and women make wise men dote and forsake God's law and do wrong." However, the fault is not in the wine, and often not in the woman. The fault is in the one who misuses the wine or the woman or other of God's crations. Even if you get drunk on the wine and through this greed you lapse into lechery, the wine is not to blame but you are, in being unable or unwilling to discipline yourself. And even if you look at a woman and become caught up in her beauty and assent to sin…
[Y]ou are not ashamed of your sin [in committing adultery] because so many men commit it. Man's wickedness is now such that men are more ashamed of chastity than of lechery. Murderers, thieves, perjurers, false witnesses, plunderers and fraudsters are detested and hated by people generally, but whoever will sleep with his servant girl in brazen lechery is liked and admired for it, and people make light of the damage to his soul. And if any man has the nerve to say that he is …
What did they want from it? Lechery, smut, confirmation of their worst suspicions. But perhaps some of them wanted, despite themselves, to be seduced. Perhaps they were looking for passion; perhaps they delved into this book as into a mysterious parcel - a gift box at the bottom of which, hidden in layers of rustling tissue paper, lay something they'd always longed for but couldn't ever grasp.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, WSJ.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (2014–2025).