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Lustful   /lˈəstfəl/   Listen
Lustful

adjective
1.
Characterized by lust.  Synonyms: lubricious, prurient, salacious.  "Her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature" , "Prurient literature" , "Prurient thoughts" , "A salacious rooster of a little man"
2.
Driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires.  Synonyms: lascivious, lewd, libidinous.
3.
Vigorously passionate.  Synonyms: concupiscent, lusty.



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"Lustful" Quotes from Famous Books



... sculptor. I am glad to have seen this Venus, and to have found her so tender and so chaste. On the wall of the room, and to be taken in at the same glance, is a painted Venus by Titian, reclining on a couch, naked and lustful. ...
— Passages From the French and Italian Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... mistaken. The young lovers did not come up the trail, neither did they see them again during the remainder of the day, although they stayed there until the sun had gone down. They accordingly went back to Dan's cabin a sulky and ugly pair. Lustful, and filled with the spirit of revenge, they became all the more determined and desperate the more they were baffled in ...
— Glen of the High North • H. A. Cody

... not but there are many Persons in the World of both Species, particularly of the Female Sex, who would willingly assume to themselves the Parts belonging to Hermaphrodites, if they could have a vigorous Use of the Members of both Sexes, upon any lustful Inclination; a lascivious Female would be transported at the Thoughts of acting the Part of a Man in the amorous Adventure, and a lecherous Male would propose equal Pleasure in receiving the Embraces he use to bestow; but tho' most Persons agree that Women have ...
— Tractus de Hermaphrodites • Giles Jacob

... awful menagerie of unclean beasts some of us have at our doors! What sort of creatures have you tethered at yours? Crawling serpents, ugly and venomous; wild creatures, fierce and bloody, obscene and foul; tigers and bears; lustful and mischievous apes and monkeys? or such as are lovely and of good report,—doves and lambs, creatures pure and peaceable, patient to serve and gentle of spirit? Remember, remember, that what a man ...
— Expositions of Holy Scripture - Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus and Numbers • Alexander Maclaren

... twofold question arises. In the first place divines dispute whether Lamech married these two wives on account of lustful passion or for some other cause. My belief is that polygamy was not entered into for the sake of lust, but with the object of increasing his family, and from the lust of dominion, and especially so if, ...
— Commentary on Genesis, Vol. II - Luther on Sin and the Flood • Martin Luther


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