concupiscent

Example Sentences

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Michael Nathanson is refreshingly free of stereotypical cobwebs as her sometime fiancé, a concupiscent peddler.

From New York Times

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