What does lecherous mean?
Lecherous means Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery..
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/ˈlɛtʃ.ə.ɹəs/ · adjective
Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery..
Adam was a perfectly satisfactory dinner companion, if not a bit damp and blandly lecherous (he revealed he had looked at my Instagram before we met and “really liked the photos of me in a bathing suit.”) And now, standing on the street corner, it was unclear how I was going to walk away from this without an awkward shutdown.
Use lecherous when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Lecherous means Given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery..
Common synonyms include sexy.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Adam was a perfectly satisfactory dinner companion, if not a bit damp and blandly lecherous (he revealed he had looked at my Instagram before we met and “really liked the photos of me in a bathing suit.”) And now, standing on the street corner, it was unclear how I was going to walk away from this without an awkward shutdown.
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