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lustuous en · ADJ

Etymology

From lust + -uous.

Meanings

1. Characterised by lust or lustfulness; lustful
   • I am simply not deserving. And this is what shall be. I hate him at this moment as he despises me. As it must be. It is not for me to understand but accept as my friend lay beside him young and lustuous and beautiful. I can not judge or be angry. 2013, Ana Locke, Behind Closed Doors:
   • I know. I'm a sinner. I have lustuous thoughts every day. 2007, Larry Brown, Dirty Work, page 20:
   • Now, there was nothing lustuous about the dream, but I have this little sense of guilt about dreaming I was spending time with another woman while my wife's away. 1988, Fraser Boa, Marie-Louise Von Franz, The Way of the Dream, page 47:
   • The face of the Negero^([sic]) indicating a mixture of a beastial spirit and lustuous might of body prehending. 2017, Raphael Falk, Zionism and the Biology of Jews, page 19:

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