"Lubricious" (loo-BRISH-us) has two meanings. It can describe something that (1) arouses or expresses sexual desire, or (2) has a slippery quality.
Example (as used by Eugene Robinson in an article about Ipanema in The Washington Post): "Here was a place where a kind of benign … anarchy seemed to rule, a lubricious, frictionless chaos into which one could simply disappear."
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