(n.) Longing desire; eagerness to possess or enjoy; -- in a had sense; as, the lust of gain.
(n.) Licentious craving; sexual appetite.
(n.) Hence: Virility; vigor; active power.
(n.) To list; to like.
(n.) To have an eager, passionate, and especially an inordinate or sinful desire, as for the gratification of the sexual appetite or of covetousness; -- often with after.
Example Sentences:
(1) Take-out: Apple can still innovate and Apple can still generate irrational lust out of thin air.
(2) He throws confessions about his love of guns or his lust for violence into restaurant conversations, but his inanely sophisticated companions carry on conversing about the varieties of sushi or the use of fur by leading designers.
(3) One is reminded of the fate of Iggy Pop’s album Lust for Life , also released in 1977, which looked all set to be his first successful US release, except that it arrived two weeks after the death of Elvis Presley.
(4) In Brussels, studying to become a governess at Heger's school, the virgin became ever more lustful.
(5) The pioneering contributions of Dr. Lee B. Lusted in the study of diagnostic imaging efficacy are highlighted.
(6) He said : The most alarming aspect of the video to me was the seeming delightful blood-lust the aerial weapons team happened to have.
(7) So, in Closer, 2004's sexually charged chamber piece in which four beautiful people (Portman, Julia Roberts, Jude Law and Clive Owen) fall in and out of love and lust, she asked Nichols, the director, to remove scenes in which her character - a pink-haired stripper - gets her kit off.
(8) In fact he is practically in residence: his new play, The Red Lion , opened last month; when we meet he is in final rehearsals for Three Days in the Country , a version of Ivan Turgenev’s study of love and lust, thwarted idealism and slow-fizzling marital despair.
(9) There are good reasons why investors are lusting for gold: Brexit, the Italian banking crisis, Chinese uncertainty, spiralling global debt and Donald Trump.
(10) The original article on the subject by Lee Lusted, describing the "state of the art" 20 years ago, is reviewed.
(11) As a ghostly relic from the building that was needlessly bulldozed to make way for the 1970s library, itself now to be swept away, it is a pointed reminder that one day, given Birmingham council's lust for demolition, this building's turn will also come.
(12) Lack of factual knowledge, parental guidance and lust for material gains are some of the factors the girls felt may be responsible for the upsurge in adolescent sexual behaviour.
(13) Perhaps not surprisingly, given our cultural addiction to ever-longer working days, one of the few rising trends since the Observer surveys of 2002 and 2008 concerns the fact that a greater number of people are finding lust (and maybe love) in the workplace – often literally – and not only that, one in five people say they would sleep with someone to further their career.
(14) The mad rush to reissue everything Elvis had ever recorded led to a worldwide shortage of the shellac needed for vinyl records, and Lust for Life was doomed by it.
(15) Their transfer lust will be sated by the £23m Dynamo Kyiv winger Andriy Yarmolenko , though that move won’t happen until the summer, by which time it’ll be far too late.
(16) In Magic Mike , he deconstructed his own reputation as Cinema’s One Truly Objectified Male, whipping up the waves of female lust that buffeted the stage of the Xquisite like a conductor.
(17) The onus cannot be on women and girls to try to control male lust.
(18) As part of a growing threat to the Seven Kingdoms from beyond the Wall, what will her lust for vengeance mean?
(19) And, when it comes to football, there's that schoolkids versus the teachers syndrome Perfumo talks of, and which he describes in his book in terms of the old Oedipal thing of children lusting to annihilate their parents.
(20) Odenigbo infuriates Olanna by justifying his infidelity in an Igbo phrase, "self-assured enough to call what he had done a brief rash lust ": the translation of that formula into English shows it up.
Lustily
Definition:
(adv.) In a lusty or vigorous manner.
Example Sentences:
(1) Molly Prince, managing director of the company, refuted the Guardian story with some lustily expressed but random facts: "CPUK have not only purchased tents for everyone (some stewards wanted to use their own but it was too wet to put them up, they insisted in having a go!).
(2) Mourinho’s name was chanted loud and lustily while some spectators held aloft banners declaring their love for their former leader and disgust with those in blue.
(3) If the future plan of Labour strategists is to have him sing lustily at the next time of asking, and thus head off this firestorm, the plan will have limited effect.
(4) On Oxford Comma , even the trio of hard-looking LA rockers with goatees and leather jackets to my left are singing lustily along.
(5) Rodriguez was booed lustily by Chicago White Sox fans, and probably some Yankees fans, in what ended up being an 8-1 loss for New York.
(6) In the blue corner, they sang lustily and defiantly about John Stones, adapting a Beatles classic to send a message to José Mourinho.
(7) 3.12am BST Kick Off And we're underway... 3.11am BST Anthems and such: The Azerbaijan anthem has just drifted past us, and now the US fans are belting out a lustily out of synch version of the Star Spangled Banner, as their team clutch their hands to their breasts stoically.
(8) Soon afterwards, the shapeshifting Jacob Black (Taylor Lautner) decides to reveal his true nature to Bella's father, the local policeman – by luring him into the forest and peeling off his clothes, while growling lustily about the world being a wilder place than he could ever imagine.
(9) At a debate party on Thursday night the real estate mogul was lustily cheered almost every time he opened his mouth.
(10) My goal is to unify all the belts.” Golovkin, who entered with the WBC’s and WBA’s pieces of the fractured middleweight championship, added Lemieux’s IBF strap before a crowd that included GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump (who was lustily booed upon entrance).
(11) This was cleverly exploited when they fought lustily – she as Katherina, he as Petruchio – through Franco Zeffirelli's bustling, colourful version of The Taming of the Shrew (1967).
(12) The Proclaimers’ catchiest hit has been sung plenty at this Commonwealth Games but never as lustily as when Eilidh Child took silver in the 400m hurdles on Thursday night.
(13) Big Papi, as Ortiz is known, swung lustily and the ball appeared to be headed for his second grand slam of the postseason .
(14) The 38-year-old Rodriguez has been booed lustily since his return, except for when he was hit by a pitch in the third inning of the Yankees' 3-2 loss Tuesday night.
(15) 4.58pm BST And here's Billy Bragg on Brazil, which is being lustily belted out by fans, players and some particularly spirited mascots.
(16) Trump, in turn, has lustily criticized the Bush political machine.
(17) And needless to say, his name was sung more lustily than ever.
(18) 5.13pm BST City's fans are making a rather big point about singing Mancini's name lustily.
(19) A friend who went to the Ghana-US game in Rustenburg reports that every local in this conservative place – white and black alike – was flying the Black Star, and that the Afrikaners in the stadium were cheering for the west Africans as lustily as they would the Springboks.