a sudden letch for chocolate she's developed quite a letch for that movie star—and he's young enough to be her son

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Side effects include nausea, dizziness, numbness, dumbness, Dementias, deletions, leeches, letches, hexes, hoaxes, hocus-pocuses, And, if there is justice, spiritual, moral, federal, state, & local charges. Terrance Hayes, The New Yorker, "American Sonnet for My Past and Future Assassin," 2 Dec. 2019

Men who preyed on younger women were called letches, cradle-robbers, dogs. Jill Ciment, Harper's magazine, "Then Again," 10 June 2019

Was White going to break down and admit he’s a letch? David Whitley, OrlandoSentinel.com, "Shaun White's not the big Olympic villain," 15 Feb. 2018

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