lubricious

Definition

Smooth and glassy; slippery.

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin lūbricus (“slippery”). Doublet of lubricous.

Example Sentences

• "His imagination wanders between a wild sensuality,—so lubricious in its suggestions, now and then, as to occasion gossip to the effect that he had become a libertine,—and a sublimated philosophy based on Platonic conceptions of a prenatal existence, or upon Leibnitzian conceptions of a pre-established harmony."
• "Lubricious bank managers and building society chairmen who have never danced before throw off their jackets, confess to barren lives and worship Rick the giver of their sun and rain."

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