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What is "lubricious"

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lubricious
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ According to her publicists, who had little else except her lubricious reputation to publicize, they measured 40 inches.
▪ Danjit stumbled forward so that for a moment she felt his lubricious body-thrust.
▪ Even when the lubricious Cardinal is titillated by his chair-straddling mistress, it is in the shadow of an overhanging jewelled crucifix.
▪ Their words fluttered between them like lubricious little doves.
Wiktionary
lubricious

a. 1 smooth and glassy; slippery 2 lewd, wanton, salacious or lecherous

WordNet
lubricious

  1. adj. having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious"

  2. characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lustful, prurient, salacious]

Usage examples of "lubricious".

He considered that the streams of lubricious thought which occupied the minds of men and women at court - and his own mind, despite applications of god and rod - were absent from ancipital harneys.

Even the flaring coral pink and incarnadine satins of the capes glistened with the lubricious tones of intimate feminine flesh and served to underscore the essentially lascivious nature of the frenzy that descended upon the tiered ranks of spectators.

When I meet Stavia, I will see her body” he laughed, a crapulent, lubricious sound which betrayed much more than he meant it to, “but maybe not her face.

I envisioned her beneath -- no, atop -- Peter Greene, or Maurice Stoker, or Eblis Eierkopf, or Lucky Rexford, in some lubricious exhibition on the Living-Room dais.

The comments that Bedmar had passed were falling into place in Mazzare's mind with a certain lubricious inevitability.