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Lickerish Lik Uh Rish Adjective Lascivious Lecherous Greedy Desirous Middle

Front lickerish \LIK-uh-rish\
Back adjective
1. Lascivious; lecherous.
2. Greedy; desirous.

[Middle English likerous, perhaps from Old French lecheor, lekier.]

"[H]e the lickerish snake who literally hisses at his adversaries. Their cruel games will lead them to peek through keyholes, swipe bedroom keys, purloin letters, ruin lives." - Richard Corliss, Cinema: Lust Is a Thing with Feathers, Time, 16 Jan 1989.

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