concupiscent

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

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

From Project Gutenberg

Trembling with fear at the audacious ambition of his concupiscent companion, the Sloven replied, “If your wish should come to the ears of the King, we shall die; indeed, we should die.”

From Project Gutenberg