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Answer for the clue "Lustful ", 9 letters:
lecherous

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Word definitions for lecherous in dictionaries

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, probably from lecher + -ous ; or else from rare Old French lecheros . Related: Lecherously ; lecherousness .

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. given to excessive sexual activity and debauchery

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
adj. given to excessive indulgence in sexual activity; "a lecherous gleam in his eye"; "a lecherous good-for-nothing"

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Lecherous \Lech"er*ous\, a. Like a lecher; addicted to lewdness; excessively lustful; -- used mostly of men; also, lust-provoking. ``A lecherous thing is wine.'' --Chaucer. -- Lech"er*ous*ly , adv. -- Lech"er*ous*ness , n.

Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
adjective EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES ▪ He was as lecherous as always, telling rude jokes and trying to kiss all the girls. ▪ Her driving instructor was a disgusting lecherous old devil -- always touching her knee.

Usage examples of lecherous.

But Aoz Roon found his family tyrannical, revolted against it early in life, and established his niche in a distant tower, along with bright sparks of his own age, the mirthful Eline Tal, the lecherous Faralin Ferd, the steady Tanth Ein.

That lecherous old crackbrain might have forgotten her existence for the moment, but he would remember the next time he saw her.

A general nodding of agreement followed, and lecherous grins gaped about the table, showing the readiness of the rogues to enter into a common arrangement.

When many clergymen were lecherous drunks, like Churchill and Laurence Sterne, and in addition ministers, were urging mobs to burn women for witchcraft, freethinkers were likely to regard religion with suspicion if not with actual hatred.

His sexlessness was more repulsive in its way than the extremes of a lecherous old man, and the miming of a father-figure more frightening than mad fantasy, and she was experiencing mad fantasy at nights now.

He could not leave the inebriated Ula on the floor of a hotel with a bunch of lecherous bagpipers roaming the town.

Narbo hummed with irate fathers, vengeful brothers, giggling girls, lecherous legionaries, and tavern brawls, keeping the provost marshals busy and the military tribunes in a foul temper.

Her full ripe breasts, heavy now with growing desire, tingled and her vagina was intolerably smoldering from his lecherous manipulations as she felt him maniacally finger fucking her shamelessly aroused cuntal flesh!

Each saw plainly a happy, carefree young Earth-girl, upon her first trip into space, locked inside an ether-wall with an over-brained, under-conscienced human machine - a super-intelligent, but lecherous and unmoral mechanism of flesh and blood, acknowledging no authority, ruled by nothing save his own scientific drivings and the almost equally powerful urges of his desires and passions!

Each saw plainly a happy, carefree young Earth-girl, upon her first trip into space, locked inside an ether-wall with an over-brained, under-conscienced human machine — a super-intelligent, but lecherous and unmoral mechanism of flesh and blood, acknowledging no authority, ruled by nothing save his own scientific drivings and the almost equally powerful urges of his desires and passions!

If you will save me from the ice storm outside, I will save you from the lecherous duchesses inside.

I still have, vibrating all along my optic nerve, visions of Lo on horseback, a link in the chain of a guided trip along a bridle trail: Lo bobbing at a walking pace, with an old woman rider in front and a lecherous red-necked dude-rancher behind.

Not a cheap lecherous jackanapes who would take my money—and my regard—and amuse yourself behind my back, debauching my daughter.

I was unsteady on my feet, and wore a vacant, lecherous, fish-eating grin.

But just as the frailest first-grader could be said to have more athletic potential than the mightiest bull in the pasture, just because he's human, so the ignorantest, most lecherous undergraduate, given proper managing, might one day become a Grand Tutor -- which the best adding-machine on campus could never.