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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
lustful
adjective
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
▪ Club Med is the renowned retreat for lustful yuppies.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ Detractors then and now thought it was designed to satisfy the lustful desires of the lusty prophet.
▪ He was not often so skittishly lustful, but the combination of Amaranth and Pretty Woman had had their effect.
▪ I do not think Tony was a lustful man.
▪ The law doesn't distinguish between an isolated lustful incident and a serious long-standing affair.
▪ The melancholic king and his lustful comic consort are out of love, but not so Peter and Emilia.
▪ This splashing about at least had several nice moments, with Anjali Bhimani as the lustful daughter Myrrha.
▪ Ultimately the batterer is himself tricked by his lustful appetite, and his violent acts inevitably escalate.
▪ Your virile, lustful lovemaking certainly surprises a partner.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lustful

Lustful \Lust"ful\, a.

  1. Full of lust; excited by lust.
    --Spenser.
    --Tillotson.

  2. Exciting lust; characterized by lust or sensuality. `` Lustful orgies.''
    --Milton.

  3. Strong; lusty. [Obs.] `` Lustful health.''
    --Sackville.

    Syn: sensual; fleshly; carnal; inordinate; licentious; lewd; unchaste; impure; libidinous; lecherous. -- Lust"ful*ly, adv. -- Lust"ful*ness, n.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
lustful

Old English lustfull "wishful, desirous, having an eager desire;" see lust (n.) + -ful. Specifically of sexual desire from 1570s. Related: Lustfully; lustfulness. Middle English also had lustsome, which was used in a sense of "voluptuous, lustful" from c.1400. Old English had lustbære "desirable, pleasant, cheerful, joyous."

Wiktionary
lustful

a. Full of lust; driven by lust.

WordNet
lustful
  1. adj. characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man" [syn: lubricious, prurient, salacious]

  2. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires; "libidinous orgies" [syn: lascivious, lewd, libidinous]

  3. vigorously passionate [syn: lusty]

Usage examples of "lustful".

By early evening, the central cauldron was full of soup or stew and all available surfaces were covered with brie tart, humble, galantine, and eel pie, haslet for the hunters, leek dishes for the lustful as well as meat laid out ready for the spit and an odd assortment of other viands depending on who was in town for what religious festival.

For every lustful lover there is at least one juiceless stick, anxious to have his lack made into virtue.

A moment later, however, the lovers started up again with a rustling of sheets, an exchange of soft endearments, with sweet exhalations and profound sighs, all signaling, he assumed, a shift in position, a pianissimo movement in their lustful symphony.

She turned slightly, looking at him, and felt a deep upswelling of affection that in its own way rivaled the so-recent tumult of lustful discovery.

I had to deal here with two exquisite young masochists, who though they were both products of our smug Victorian society secretly experienced the same lustful desires as a tavern wench or others of that same lowly station in life.

Fiske closed the door on them and bolted it as usual, but the mountebank no longer looked on her with lustful eyes.

But this intrigue has been taken as the grounds for accusations of the most unbridled licentiousness, the tale of a lewd and lustful life.

Her fingers tightened in mine, but I drew them forcibly again to my cock, which was beginning to show signs of new life, thanks to all this philosophical discussion whilst in the nude, and I confess that seeing her naked on the couch, clad only in those delicious and naughty black hose with their provocative rosettes to hold them firm and unwrinkled to her lovely legs, was even more whetting to my lustful appetites than all the philosophy of heaven and hell combined.

By early evening, the central cauldron was full of soup or stew and all available surfaces were covered with brie tart, humble, galantine, and eel pie, haslet for the hunters, leek dishes for the lustful as well as meat laid out ready for the spit and an odd assortment of other viands depending on who was in town for what religious festival.

Then, lips curving into a lustful grin, Kaska proceeded to make them jiggle indeed with a series of skillful snaps that took my breath away.

There were enough fellow servants present already cast lustful glances her way, had so far stayed their advances only because she dismissed them.

People want to use whores, they want to think the prostitute is having the time of his or her lustful life, and they want to go home and forget them.

Dear reader, if I were to paint it with a faithful pen, my portrait of that lustful vixen would frighten you.

They include: The Festival of the Passions, Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure, The Curtain Drawn Up, The Bagnio Miscellany, The Birchen Bouquet, and The Lustful Turk.

Bred only and completed to the taste Of lustful appetence, to sing, to dance, To dress, and troll the tongue, and roll the eye: To these that sober race of men, whose lives Religious titled them the sons of God, Shall yield up all their virtue, all their fame Ignobly, to the trains and to the smiles Of these fair atheists.