lubricious

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

• (General American) IPA^(key): /luˈbɹɪʃəs/

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lubricious (comparative more lubricious, superlative most lubricious)

1. Smooth and glassy; slippery.
2. (figurative) Lewd, wanton, salacious or lecherous.
   • 1901, Calvin Thomas, The Life and Works of Friedrich Schiller‎:

     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.

   • 1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy:

     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.

• lubriciously
• lubriciousness

• lubricant
• lubricate
• lubricous