Definitions for lechery

lechery lech·er·y

Spelling: [lech-uh-ree]
IPA: /ˈlɛtʃ ə ri/

Lechery is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 15 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in lechery (ceehlry).

Definitions for lechery

noun

  1. unrestrained or excessive indulgence of sexual desire.
  2. a lecherous act.

Origin of lechery

1200-50; Middle English lecherie Old French. See lecher, -y3

Examples for lechery

Wine and lechery did what human enemies could not and the pack of wolves rotted away like a flock of diseased sheep.

lechery and gambling are two of his vices, and the third is drinking.

Younghusband, who perhaps got his information at the bar of the Manila Club, describes them as “monsters of lechery.”

There are worse faults to be laid to his account than lechery and extravagance.

Well, I have two of my healths to drink yet—lechery and drunkenness, which even shall go together.

The seventh is goat-drunk, when in his drunkenness he hath no mind but on lechery.

The frame of his bed is of fine sapphires blended with gold, to make him sleep well, and to refrain him from lechery.

For that it brent it was a sign of lechery, the which was that time much used.

He vents his lechery at the mouth, as some fishes are said to engender.

Less force to labour, and more to lechery; that's the sum of it.

Word Value for lechery
Scrable

15

Words with friends

15

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