Translation for "lecherously" to spanish
Lecherously
Translation examples
As they study the menu, one ay the guys, a dark-haired skinny wanker wi a long fringe, smiles lecherously at us.
Mientras estudian el menú, uno de los tíos, un gilipollas flacucho de pelo oscuro con un flequillo largo, me sonríe lujuriosamente.
He turned round sharply to face a lecherous grin. It belonged to a middle-aged man with fairish hair that was greying at the temples, and who sported a large Zapata moustache.
Se volvió bruscamente y vio a un hombre de mediana edad con cabellos claros y canas incipientes a la altura de las sienes, que lucía un gran bigote tipo Zapata y que le sonreía lujuriosamente.
One of the women ran out of the toilet without remembering to pull her pants up, but when she saw the men in the crowd staring at her lecherously, she let out another scream and ran back in.
Una de las mujeres salió corriendo del retrete olvidando subirse los pantalones, pero cuando vio la muchedumbre de hombres mirándola lujuriosamente, dejó escapar otro grito y corrió adentro otra vez.
Wharton was working on the novel in precisely the years when she was preparing to forsake the United States permanently, and its grotesquely negative cartoon of the country—the lecherously red face of the millionaire Van Degen, the fatuous pretensions of the celebrity portrait painter Popple, the culpably feeble traditions of old New York, the vacuous pleasure seeking of the arrivistes, the corrupt connivance of business and politics—reads like a selective marshaling of evidence to support her case.
Wharton trabajó en esta novela precisamente durante los años en que se disponía a abandonar Estados Unidos para siempre, y la caricatura grotescamente negativa que dibuja del país (el rostro lujuriosamente enrojecido del millonario Van Degen; las fatuas pretensiones de Popple, que se dedica a pintar retratos de famosos; las poco arraigadas tradiciones del viejo Nueva York, la vacua búsqueda de placer de los arrivistes, la connivencia corrupta de negocios y política) se lee como un desfile de evidencias seleccionadas para demostrar su opinión.
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