lustful

[US]/'lʌstfl/
[UK]/ˈlʌstfəl/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

adj. filled with intense desire or craving; characterized by a strong sexual desire

Example Sentences

to give in to lustful temptations

Real-world Examples

I'm not that hateful, beastly, lustful woman.

Source: Veil

So voluptuous, indeed, often grows the lustful prowler, that he refines on female softness.

Source: Defending Feminism (Part 2)

When women became naturally lustful, perhaps they could have been said to have been a victim of evil.

Source: World Atlas of Wonders

Neither chaste charity nor lustful gluttony have much to recommend them as a management ethos; but only one is a lawsuit waiting to happen.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Musashi seems to point to eros in this case, which is a form of love motivated by lustful desire, also known among Buddhists as 'romantic love'.

Source: The meaning of solitude.

I was deceived and deceived others, in varied lustful projects--sometimes publicly, by the teaching of what men style " the liberal arts" ; sometimes secretly, under the false guise of religion.

Source: Volume Four: Confessions

An air of enchanting innocence and candour pervaded her whole form; and there was a sort of modesty in her very nakedness which added fresh stings to the desires of the lustful Monk.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

He stifled her cries with kisses, treated her with the rudeness of an unprincipled Barbarian, proceeded from freedom to freedom, and in the violence of his lustful delirium, wounded and bruised her tender limbs.

Source: Monk (Part 2)

Such were the scenes, on which his thoughts were employed while sleeping: His unsatisfied Desires placed before him the most lustful and provoking Images, and he rioted in joys till then unknown to him.

Source: Monk (Part 1)

We will at best conclude that we messed up because we were greedy, because we were vain, shallow, intemperate and weak-willed; that we have ruined our lives because we are lustful, harebrained, immature and egocentric.

Source: Selected English short passages

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