What's the difference between amorous and lascivious?

Amorous


Definition:

  • (a.) Inclined to love; having a propensity to love, or to sexual enjoyment; loving; fond; affectionate; as, an amorous disposition.
  • (a.) Affected with love; in love; enamored; -- usually with of; formerly with on.
  • (a.) Of or relating to, or produced by, love.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Kafka's faceless and amoral heroes, on the other hand, inspire no sympathy at all.
  • (2) Amor Almagro, spokesperson for the World Food Programme (WFP) in Sudan, said: "There have been several meetings between the government of Sudan and the Tripartite on the implementation of the MoU, but so far access has not been granted for us to carry out an assessment and deliver much needed food assistance in areas held by the SPLM-N. "We remain concerned about the ongoing conflict and insecurity, which has hampered our ability to reach all those in need of food assistance."
  • (3) Nothing substantial altered in the world, and the wild, amoral capitalism that developed from his Hayek-inspired economic vision created wealth for some, but otherwise had no respect for the homes or jobs of Powell’s followers, nor for the other things he cared about – tradition, national borders, patriotism or religion.
  • (4) This is a party on its way to becoming a multinational libertarian sect, whose preoccupations are no longer those either of much of its electorate or of the business community – wrestling with how genuinely to innovate, invest and motivate workforces in a world of increasingly amoral, ownerless companies so beloved and promoted by the sect.
  • (5) Tommy from Vice City is a cackling psychopath, and CJ from San Andreas merely rides the acquisitionist philosophy of hip-hop culture to terminal amorality.
  • (6) When Hall became amorous for a second time, she made it clear she wanted nothing to do with him, gathered her things and headed towards her room.
  • (7) Among them was Amor Masovic, the chairman of the Bosnian Missing Persons Institute, the man entrusted by the state with the endless task of accounting for the dead.
  • (8) Based on a script by Oscar-nominated writer Beau Willimon, it was to be a remake the 1990 BBC series House of Cards, and would star Kevin Spacey as an amoral US senator.
  • (9) Amphotericin B (Amph B), 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), ketoconazole (KTZ), fluconazole (FLZ), amorolfine (AMOR) and terbinafine (TER) were tested against 3 agents of central nervous system phaeohyphomycosis in vitro and in life-threatening infections in mice.
  • (10) Villains who are also heroes, amoral manipulators whose goals may ultimately be honourable: it's hard to talk of such things with Cranston for long without circling back to Walter White, possibly the darkest and most morally ambiguous protagonist in television history.
  • (11) But now that the Thatcherite alternative has failed just as completely with a broken, amoral banking system, those 1960s and 70s struggles seem less futile.
  • (12) The film itself has a similar feel: relentlessly entertaining but brazenly, outrageously amoral.
  • (13) Church of England calls for 'fresh moral vision' in British politics Read more The prime minister, whose government has clashed with the Church of England over the direction and severity of policy, said the changes it had made since the last election should likewise not be seen as “amoral”.
  • (14) Released in 1935, it chronicles the musical and amorous adventures of two young men who put on a cabaret for tourists in the Morro da Providência , the hill near the port area of Rio de Janeiro, which, 40 years earlier, had become Brazil’s first favela.
  • (15) The Telegraph's religion editor and Church of England priest George Pitcher has described him as personifying "the new amorality of avaricious, red-top, vulgar New Britain".
  • (16) It will be the latest improbable chapter in the life story of a man raised as an Eisenhower Republican, who fought as a patriot in Vietnam and made his name in Hollywood writing such splashy, amoral screenplays as Scarface for Al Pacino, before becoming an Oscar-winning, Chávez-admiring Buddhist whom the Observer described as "one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema" .
  • (17) Samir Ben Amor is also concerned that, despite promises from the government, the exact wording of the amnesty law has yet to be released.
  • (18) The revitalisation of Guillermo Amor’s side as genuine premiership contenders gathered further momentum at AAMI Park.
  • (19) Among Brazilian film buffs and cultural historians, the film Favela dos Meus Amores has gained cult-like status.
  • (20) Human- and snail-related aspects of the transmission of schistosomiasis mansoni was studied in the Amor Parish community located at the western bank of the River Nile in the Nebbi District, north-western Uganda.

Lascivious


Definition:

  • (a.) Wanton; lewd; lustful; as, lascivious men; lascivious desires.
  • (a.) Tending to produce voluptuous or lewd emotions.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) With New Zealand supporters outnumbered by at least four to one, the typically lascivious, festive mood of any bar in the small hours of Sunday morning is tempered by good-natured but earnest rivalry.
  • (2) GRRRR," he guffawed, eyebrows wiggling lasciviously, before being ejected from Booty at 230mph courtesy of a broom and a gallon of budget acrylic nail glue.
  • (3) Jill Harth, woman who sued Trump over alleged sexual assault, breaks silence Read more After Access Hollywood host Billy Bush and Trump spend a few minutes making lascivious comments about actor Arianne Zucker, they meet the woman they were just objectifying.
  • (4) All are taking on the expansive driving genre introduced by Test Drive Unlimited and reworking it for next-gen hardware, but right now it's difficult to tease out the individual quirks amid all that brushed aluminium and lasciviously winking lens flare.
  • (5) I remember the embarrassment, the discomfort, at the lascivious drool coming from his chops, and the physical revulsion at his presumed erection from looking at a girl pretty much the same as me, but without the school uniform and with probably fewer chances in life.
  • (6) Why do magazines such as Esquire and Grazia think it's OK to talk about bums so lasciviously?
  • (7) OK, so New Moon sags somewhat in the middle (a season-changing montage in which Bella appears to mope in a swivel chair for an entire year has become something of a standing joke) but at least it's enlivened by Michael Sheen not so much chewing as lasciviously licking the quasi-Papal scenery.
  • (8) Meanwhile the aforementioned male presenter – who apparently became known for his lascivious behaviour – went on to be given more shows.
  • (9) She likes the sound of lady so much that she repeats it, running it off her tongue with lascivious delight.
  • (10) Mason's stuffed-shirt reticence, allied to his lasciviously clipped vowels, made him ideal for the role.
  • (11) It is Gauguinesque in style, languorous rather than lascivious, more symbolist than sexual.
  • (12) Crisp said the report shows a soldier of her low rank and "cognitive deficits" could not have been expected to understand the distinction between approved harsh interrogation techniques and the "lewd and lascivious" conduct she was accused of.
  • (13) Gordon also recalled that, one weekend in late July, when the two of them were necking she accused him of being "lascivious".
  • (14) Then, in February, she was charged with lewd and lascivious battery on a child aged 12 to 16.
  • (15) The father, the grandfather, and an uncle confessed to lewd and lascivious misconduct with the children.
  • (16) They are complemented by rumours of his monstrous behaviour, lascivious sexual preferences, indulgence in drugs and alcohol, chain-smoking, bizarre illnesses, love of western rock music, and his unstable mental state.
  • (17) Nowhere swaggers quite like Los Angeles: threatening, provocative, "show me what you got", the city leers lasciviously over a backdrop of Morrison's motels, of money, of murder, of madness.
  • (18) Viewers who might have expected, given the eminence and earlier career of Jonathan Ross and his fellow guests, to hear the scholars quietly debating the Arian controversy, were instead invited – and it was hard to read these words in the Daily Mail – to hear them "speculate lasciviously on air about the taste of a racehorse's semen" .
  • (19) When women rose to speak in the Commons, they'd sometimes be met by a lascivious mime, as men cupped their hands to their chest, and jiggled them.
  • (20) Whatever it is, the phenomenon excites us; this lascivious dance between the narrow spaces occupied by the women the world wishes we were and the women who sometimes wish they were us keeps the tradition of lesbians chasing straight alive and flourishing.