Gay
Gay adjective - Having much high-spirited energy and movement.
Mutual synonyms
Both words in one sentence
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This trope is so prevalent that if a male character is not being lecherous around women, he is often assumed to be either gay or a eunuch.
Source: All Men Are Perverts - Malicious Slander: The young (and beautiful) Caesar successfully negotiated an alliance with the old, Camp Gay, and lecherous King Nicomedes of Bithynia.
Source: Literature / Masters of Rome - In the First Doctor book The Plotters, the Doctor dresses his female companion as a boy again, only to end up finding this has exactly the opposite intended effect when she attracts the attention of a lecherous old gay king who sets about trying to woo her.
Source: No Equal Opportunity Time Travel
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Lecherous and Gay. (2016). Retrieved 2026, August 07, from https://thesaurus.plus/related/gay/lecherous
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