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lubricious
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lu·bri·cious  (l-brshs) also lu·bri·cous (lbr-ks)
adj.
1. Having a slippery or smooth quality.
2. Shifty or tricky.
3.
a. Lewd; wanton.
b. Sexually stimulating; salacious.
[Alteration of lubricous, from Latin lbricus, slippery; see sleubh- in Indo-European roots.]
lu·bricious·ly adv.
lu·bricious·ness n.
lubricious [loo-brish-uss]
Adjective
Formal or literary lewd [Latin lubricus slippery]
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Adj.1.lubricious - having a smooth or slippery quality; "the skin of cephalopods is thin and lubricious"
slippery, slippy - causing or tending to cause things to slip or slide; "slippery sidewalks"; "a slippery bar of soap"; "the streets are still slippy from the rain"
2.lubricious - 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"
lustful, prurient, salacious
sexy - marked by or tending to arouse sexual desire or interest; "feeling sexy"; "sexy clothes"; "sexy poses"; "a sexy book"; "sexy jokes"


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The authors eschew art-critical and theoretical language and references--an exception: Hainley uses the word "scoporheic"--but the sneaking suspicion persists that Bataille underwrites Paul McCarthy (or Richard Kern or Keith Boadwee or whomever) and Baudrillard's Ecstasy of Communication lubriciously commingles with Richard Prince (or Larry Johnson or Gary Lee Boas or whomever).
Brush stroke: David Rimanelli on John Waters and Bruce Hainley by Rimanelli, David / Artforum International
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