Word of the Day for Thursday January 6, 2005
Word of the Day for Thursday January 6, 2005
lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\, adjective:
1. Lustful; lewd.
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
3. Having a slippery or smooth quality.
[T]he heroine, through some form of ESP, can hear, and be
offended by, the lubricious speculations going on inside
the heads of the men she meets.
--Philip French, "More about What Women Want," [1]The
Observer, February 4, 2001
And even if the public ate up every lubricious detail about
their leaders, that same public grew offended that the news
media would actually pander to their baser impulses.
--Jeff Greenfield, "Film at 11," [2]New York Times,
November 7, 1999
. . . urged women to give up their vanities, their
cosmetics, and their high-heeled shoes, and to pile them on
... bonfires next to lubricious works of art.
--Anthony Grafton, "The Varieties of Millennial
Experience," [3]The New Republic, November 1999
Here was a place where a kind of benign... anarchy
seemed to rule, a lubricious, frictionless chaos into which
one could simply disappear.
--Eugene Robinson, "On the Beach at Ipanema," [4]Washington
Post, August 1, 1999
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Lubricious derives from Latin lubricus, "slippery, smooth."
References
1. http://www.observer.co.uk/
2. http://www.nytimes.com/
3. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/
4. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/front.htm
lubricious \loo-BRISH-us\, adjective:
1. Lustful; lewd.
2. Stimulating or appealing to sexual desire or imagination.
3. Having a slippery or smooth quality.
[T]he heroine, through some form of ESP, can hear, and be
offended by, the lubricious speculations going on inside
the heads of the men she meets.
--Philip French, "More about What Women Want," [1]The
Observer, February 4, 2001
And even if the public ate up every lubricious detail about
their leaders, that same public grew offended that the news
media would actually pander to their baser impulses.
--Jeff Greenfield, "Film at 11," [2]New York Times,
November 7, 1999
. . . urged women to give up their vanities, their
cosmetics, and their high-heeled shoes, and to pile them on
... bonfires next to lubricious works of art.
--Anthony Grafton, "The Varieties of Millennial
Experience," [3]The New Republic, November 1999
Here was a place where a kind of benign... anarchy
seemed to rule, a lubricious, frictionless chaos into which
one could simply disappear.
--Eugene Robinson, "On the Beach at Ipanema," [4]Washington
Post, August 1, 1999
_________________________________________________________
Lubricious derives from Latin lubricus, "slippery, smooth."
References
1. http://www.observer.co.uk/
2. http://www.nytimes.com/
3. http://www.thenewrepublic.com/
4. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/front.htm