Cryptic crossword clue
South American dictators, not a model of industry, are lecherous types 6

The most common and most likely answer to this crossword clue is the 6 letter word SATYRS

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We know that "lecherous types" is the straight/definition part of the clue. The straight part is often a synonym or definition, in this case lecherous types = satyrs.
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What does SATYRS mean?

SATYRS noun
  1. A woodland creature with pointed ears, legs, and short horns of a goat and a fondness for unrestrained revelry.
  2. Any of various nymphalid butterflies of the genus Faunis.
SATYRS noun
  1. A sylvan deity or demigod, male companion of Pan or Dionysus, represented as part man and part goat, and characterized by riotous merriment and lasciviousness, sometimes pictured with a perpetual erection.
  2. (by extension) A lecherous man.
  3. Any of various butterflies of the nymphalid subfamily Satyrinae, having brown wings marked with eyelike spots; a meadow brown.
  4. The orangutan.

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