carnal
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But for all his uses of food as a source of carnal provocation and capitalist fracturing, Bong also allows food to be the root of love and community.
From Salon ● Mar. 25, 2025
Or, ‘Hey carnal, do I go along with the program?’
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 14, 2024
But same-sex relationships are criminalised by a criminal code which Dr Adjepong calls "completely vague" - introduced by the British when they ruled Ghana - that mentions "unnatural carnal knowledge".
From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2021
He hit American pop like a fireball in the mid-1950s, a hopped-up emissary from cultures that mainstream America barely knew, drawing on the sacred and the profane, the spiritual and the carnal.
From New York Times ● May 10, 2020
They preached doctrines surpassing man’s understanding; they set a restraint on carnal pleasures; they taught contempt for everything that is in the world.
From Church and State as Seen in the Formation of Christendom by T. W. (Thomas William) Allies
Vocabulary lists containing carnal
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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