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concupiscent

[kon-kyoo-pi-suhnt, kong-] / kɒnˈkyu pɪ sənt, kɒŋ- /
ADJECTIVE
lustful
Synonyms


Example Sentences

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Even the most concupiscent teen-ager might find this degree of sexual intensity overmuch.

From The New Yorker

“So oozy, hypocritical, praise-mad, canting, envious, concupiscent,” Samuel Coleridge described him in his notebooks.

From The New Yorker

Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.

From The Guardian

Torquemada, the town clock-maker, leaves his shop each week for an hour, abandoning his wife, the concupiscent Concepción, free to receive her lovers.

From The Guardian

Is not this man likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous elements on the vacant throne?

From Project Gutenberg