2. debauchery, dissoluteness, rakishness, dissipation, profligacy; licentiousness, wantonness, unrestraint, abandon, incontinence, self-indulgence; aphrodisia, sexual passion
or desire, Pathol, satyriasis, Pathol. nymphomania; unnatural desire, incest, incestuousness, pederasty, sodomy, buggery, sadism, masochism; Psychiatry, coprophilia.
3. obscenity, obsceneness, luridness; pornography, Inf. porno, Inf. porn, smut, smuttiness; bawdiness, bawdry, scurrility, ribaldry; vulgarity, vulgarism, vulgarness, coarseness, crudity, crudeness. lexicographer, n. dictionary writer, dictionary maker, dictionarist, dictionarian, compiler; definer, explainer, explicator; etymologist, philologist, philolo-ger, lexicologist, onomatologist; glossarist, glossator, glossologist, glossographer.
lexicography, n. dictionary making, dictionary compiling, glossography, Archaic, glossology; etymology, philology, lexicology, lexigraphy, onomatology, onomastics.
lexicon, n. dictionary, wordbook, glossary, gloss, Webster's; wordstock, wordlist, vocabulary, onomas-ticon; thesaurus, gradus, synonymy, Roget's compilation, concordance; rhyming dictionary, polyglot dictionary, unabridged dictionary, college dictionary, desk-top dictionary, bilingual dictionary.
liability, n. 1. indebtedness, debt, obligation, Accounting. debit; duty, indebtment, due, score, pledge.
2. responsibility, accountability, chargeability, amenability, amenableness.
3. drawback, disadvantage, hindrance, hamper; nuisance, holdback, drag, clog, inconvenience; impediment, undesirability, discommodity, incommodity, difficulty; encumbrance, cumbrance, onus, burden, load, weight, millstone, cross; obstacle, barrier, obstruction, bar, block, hitch, snag, stumbling block; fetter, shackle, catch.
4. liableness, susceptibility, susceptivity; exposure, vulnerability, pregnability, assailability.
liable, adj. 1. exposed, open, subject; susceptible, vulnerable, pregnable, obnoxious, assailable, in danger.
2. likely, probable; apt, prone, tending, disposed, predisposed, inclined, incident to.
3. responsible, chargeable, answerable, accountable, amenable; guilty, culpable, reprehensible, censurable, Obs. obnoxious, blameworthy, blamable, at fault, Law. actionable.
liaison, n. 1. contact, connection, bond, tie, vinculum, link, nexus, linkage; connective, copula, hyphen, tie-up, hook-up; joint, juncture, conjunction, jointure; mediary, intermediary, medium, intermedium, go-between; alliance, affiliation, filiation, association, relationship, relation, kinship.
2. affair, amour, amourette, romance, tryst, intrigue, entanglement, assignation; flirtation, Si. thing, Inf hanky-panky.
liar, n. prevaricator, fibber, fibster, perjurer, false witness; falsifier, deluder, fraud, duper, cheater, cheat, libeler; equivocator, hedger, misleader; dissembler, SI. leg-puller, circumventor, deceiver, Ananias; hypocrite, false friend, shammer, actor; fabulist, romancer, pseudologist, yarner, spinner of yarns, storyteller, Baron von MUnchhausen.
libation, n. 1. Often Facetious, drink, beverage, liquid, liquid refreshment, draught, dram, drinkable, potable; intoxicant, potation, imbibition, potion, decoction, infusion; mixed drink, cocktail, highball, martini, Manhattan, aperitif, Inf chaser, SI. snifter; nightcap, Brit. Inf sundowner, bracer, pickup, one for the road, Scot. doch-an-dorrach, parting cup; toast, health.
