What's the difference between delicious and luscious?

Delicious


Definition:

  • (a.) Affording exquisite pleasure; delightful; most sweet or grateful to the senses, especially to the taste; charming.
  • (a.) Addicted to pleasure; seeking enjoyment; luxurious; effeminate.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The dumplings could also be served pan-fried in browned butter and tossed with a bitter leaf salad and fresh sheep's cheese for a lighter, but equally delicious option.
  • (2) I like to think of Shakespeare as one delicious smorgasbord that I have a lifelong pleasure in eating.
  • (3) But it includes other delicious things, too: pot-roasted squab, stewed rabbit, braised oxtail.
  • (4) The coke sailed up my nasal passage, leaving behind the delicious smell of a hot leather car seat on the way back from the beach.
  • (5) Grilled Grill herring with a little oil and salt and the skin will blacken and crisp to reveal a creamy delicious flesh inside.
  • (6) Anything that good for you might be expected to smell foul and come in a medicine bottle, but the Mediterranean diet is generally considered to be delicious, except by those who hate olive oil.
  • (7) Also, the tacos are probably delicious, and undoubtedly more authentic than the hipster joint with the zigzag taco holders and $12 margaritas.
  • (8) 55 min: Maggio plays a delicious ball down the inside-right channel to release Di Natale in the box.
  • (9) Alex Song was the provider, and Van Persie improvised to outwit John Ruddy with a deliciously delicate touch.
  • (10) Ruth Joseph and Sarah Nathan's crumbly little almond and lemon tarts are the perfect example of its charms, to my mind – not too sweet, not too sour, just intensely, deliciously zesty.
  • (11) I picked the strawberries growing up the side of my compost loo for breakfast; physalis and ferns were growing inside my shower; I snacked on pitanga, a delicious sweet-sour berry.
  • (12) The video camera installation, with the clarity of the colours and the contrast between the scenes of winter and summer, is just delicious.
  • (13) Today, I’m more likely to look up a recipe by a celebrity chef and prepare a delicious family dinner while my wife fixes the lawnmower and unblocks a drain.
  • (14) Ryse offers high-octane spectacle – the quick-time kill moves are particularly delicious – but in terms of its gameplay, it's a little hit and miss.
  • (15) It’s as though you went out one warm evening – an evening fizzing with delicious potential – you went out for just one drink… and woke up two days later in a skip.
  • (16) Just email cook@theguardian.com with "get-togethers" in the subject line and tell us what you've got planned.For each get-together we feature, the host will receive a selection of delicious Hotel Chocolat chocolates.
  • (17) Owner Sergio has 15 artisanal beers on the menu every week and serves very generous G&Ts and delicious Aperol Spritz.
  • (18) The equaliser was slickly constructed, the ball shifted smartly from left to right at pace with home defenders lunging in but unable to intercept, before Mohamed Salah curled a delicious shot beyond Petr Cech.
  • (19) No, it has made it more delicious.” I, like the overwhelming majority of those who work in palliative care, am opposed to this bill – not on religious grounds, but out of concern for the weakest and most vulnerable in our society.
  • (20) So perhaps delicious Istria has been hiding in plain sight.

Luscious


Definition:

  • (a.) Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.
  • (a.) Cloying; fulsome.
  • (a.) Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Anyway, pink was not then the absolute obsession with little girls that it has since become, and I had been hoping for the luscious, bleeding colours of Disney's Technicolor.
  • (2) Jane Eyre has spawned a thousand luscious anti-heroes, and a million Pills & Swoon paperbacks.
  • (3) One of the most pleasing things in recent years is that it has become easier for us in Britain to get hold of luscious, fleshy Medjool dates.
  • (4) I dreamed that a baby burst out of my abdomen last night, an image utterly remote from most luscious baby marketing.
  • (5) Project Spark looks like an intriguing game builder allowing users to create luscious RPG worlds with a simple Kinect interface.
  • (6) Young had obviously reached a bad stage in his life, but the backing by the London symphony orchestra makes it luscious.
  • (7) The winning recipe: Zesty lemon and almond and vanilla petits fours I've just tried out a new luscious petit-four recipe, based on a Moroccan idea I saw, which has to be the epitome of zesty.
  • (8) Looking back now that game still has the feel of a luscious one-off.
  • (9) Luscious Libras Luscious Libras Photograph: Alicia Canter "This is our walkabout performance – we're a Mexican-wrestling thumb-war team.
  • (10) People are waiting in line with containers and barrels to fill up to get to where they want to go.” Ang said from Havannah he could see that the islands of Moso and Lelepa, “normally a luscious, rolling green, have been stripped bare” by the cyclone.
  • (11) And, I’m always the conservative one so I may be understating that number.” Hardy, 56, who has been selling houses for 20 years, pauses to point out the window as she drives past acre after acre of luscious hedgerows grown 20ft high to shield the wealthy from prying eyes.
  • (12) Let’s not forget we are talking about a land that the ancient Greeks could not believe when they landed: such a paradise of luscious food, but because of the massive inequality of rich and poor, there were times when many people had very little to eat.
  • (13) I'm in a huge, ancient cast iron bath with crackled cream enamel, and I've decided to float on my back in the green water, piling the huge mounds of luscious fleshy seaweed all over me.
  • (14) Joyce DiDonato, the US mezzo-soprano who performs the part for the last time in the run tonight, would have achieved wonderful reviews for her voice alone: luscious and clear, with a freshness that filled the theatre.
  • (15) In the prop store, I see the Pontipines' tiny picnic table, cloth laid out with drawer-knob cakes and luscious trifles made out of sherry glasses filled with glass beads.
  • (16) The winning recipe: braised ox cheek ragu I live in Santiago de Compostela in north-west Spain and the weather has been awful this winter, so I wanted to make something heart-warming, rich and luscious.
  • (17) For a weekend last September, he gave over his luscious farm in the Cotswolds to a festival celebrating his two great loves: food and music.
  • (18) The superbly lifelike constellation of almost too luscious-looking grapes, bruised and scarred apples, a pomegranate burst open to reveal the blood-red seeds within, and other ripe, even over-ripe, fancies that balance dangerously on the edge of the table is just one of many fruit baskets that appear in Caravaggio’s art.
  • (19) The dish is silky and luscious with a wonderful mouth-feel; the textures in the stuffing balance perfectly.
  • (20) Doña Yoli, a humble operation, has been doling out luscious red pozole for decades.