"Lubricious" (loo-BRISH-us) – from the Latin for "smooth" – means (1) lustful or (2) slippery.
Example (as used by Eugene Robinson in The Washington Post): "Here was a place [Ipanema] where a kind of benign… anarchy seemed to rule, a lubricious, frictionless chaos into which one could simply disappear."
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