concupiscent
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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 ● Aug. 27, 2015
This uneasy alliance between corseted but concupiscent industry and one of its most irascible critics is, perhaps, more aptly illustrated in The Caine Mutiny, which Columbia Pictures will release this summer.
From Time Magazine Archive
The sensitive concupiscent appetite is again subdivided into six passions: 1, love; 2, hate; 3, desire; 4, aversion; 5, joy; 6, sadness.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Jean Pierre Camus
This king, free will, will dwell in the highest town in the kingdom—that is to say, in the concupiscent faculty of the soul.
From Light, Life, and Love : selections from the German mystics of the middle ages by William Ralph Inge
Is not this man likely to seat the concupiscent and covetous elements on the vacant throne?
From The Five Great Philosophies of Life by William De Witt Hyde
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