What's the difference between luscious and lush?

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.

Lush


Definition:

  • (a.) Full of juice or succulence.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The tunes weren't quite as easy and lush as they had been, and hints of dissonance crept in.
  • (2) Adjoining his office, in the green room where Nicolas Sarkozy married Carla Bruni, Hollande settled into a lush dining chair, more elaborate than the rest around the meeting table.
  • (3) The tale of native American Pocahontas's love for an English captain in 17th-century Virginia and her journey to England, it made much of innocence versus colonial exploitation, contrasting the lush, wild vegetation of America with the manicured gardens of England.
  • (4) Look, you can see it here," he says, pointing to a long, low, flat plateau that barely rises above the palms, banana plants and rubber trees that skirt the road and hug the traditional stilted timber houses dotting the lush emerald-green countryside.
  • (5) Smaller Kalymnos, Kasos, Kastellorizo and Symi are less lush than their bigger companions but all have elegant harbours – a legacy of their trading past – and rocky interiors that offer good walking.
  • (6) And then, out of the distance rush the intricately detailed hordes, like lushly painted Games Worshop figures.
  • (7) From the summit, accessed via the Summit trail or a paved forest service road, visitors can marvel at the line of Cascade volcanoes to the east, the lush, green Willamette valley below and the Pacific Ocean to the west, making this one of the best places for views in the state.
  • (8) In Australia, the sudden flush of vegetation that followed the loss of large herbivores caused stacks of leaf litter to build up, which became the rainforests' pyre: fires (natural or manmade) soon transformed these lush places into dry forest and scrub .
  • (9) There was still snow in June this year in the Northern Velebit national park, which contrasts lush beech forest with more austere pine-spiked ridges, and here there is a proper day's hiking to be had, requiring detailed maps, sensible shoes and a chat with the ranger beforehand.
  • (10) Doubles from £84, B&B Le Gite d’Indaiatiba, near Paraty Le Gite díIndaiatiba, near Paraty Paraty has one of Brazil’s most astonishing settings, where rainforest-covered peaks spill down to bay after beautiful blue bay, so why not back off the historic centre a bit and make your way into the lush surroundings of the Serra do Bocaina mountains?
  • (11) Amazon shoppers searching for Lush products would instead be directed to similar products described as "lush".
  • (12) and MacFarlane's newest animated sitcom, The Cleveland Show , may wonder what has happened to their comic hero once they have seen him step out behind the microphone in his tuxedo to the accompaniment of Wilson's lush strings.
  • (13) From there it was on to Kentucky, which had a 14% poor roads rating and many well-tended arcs of asphalt swooping through lush, wooded hill country.
  • (14) The resort, one of the largest ever foreign investments in China, includes a 225-acre Magic Kingdom-style park with a castle surrounded by themed areas, with guests entering through a lush 11-acre garden.
  • (15) Samples collected from or near surface waters in a lush hardwood forest yielded four salmonellae serotypes from six culturally positive samples.
  • (16) Sangin's lush wheat fields and dense poppy groves soon became killing fields.
  • (17) Winning tip Wadi Bani Khalid, Oman You might not imagine the Middle East as a swimmer's paradise, but Wadi Bani Khalid in Oman's Sharqiyah region is a lush oasis.
  • (18) Henderson's acknowledged scientific hero was Jay L. Lush, with whom he studied during his Ph.D. program at Iowa State College and with whom he shared similar talents and the intuition that made both of them leaders in the field of animal breeding.
  • (19) Starting in a lush valley edged by high cliffs, it climbs a side valley to a rocky ridge.
  • (20) It was special, too, to have someone take beautiful pictures.” Those pictures promote an idyll that doesn’t seem to belong to this age, with both women wearing vintage dresses, carrying picnic baskets filled with passionfruit curd through a lush garden.