(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.
Lustiness
Definition:
(n.) State of being lusty; vigor; strength.
Example Sentences:
(1) Sure enough, the rowdy crowd in the Fox News audience gave him a lusty boo - the loudest of a rambunctious night and maybe of the entire primary season so far - while Gingrich called him "utterly irrational" for questioning the manner of Bin Laden's killing.
(2) She isn't the first wannabe pop girl with intimations of "edge" and "darkness" in her songs to emerge this year , although she might be the last (hello, it's November), but the question is: does she bring anything new to the feisty, lusty-voiced electro-girl genre?
(3) Each of these MgATP sites contains a peptide from one of the internal duplicated regions of the enzyme molecule, which have previously been suggested as containing MgATP sites (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K. E., Widgren, E. E., and Lusty, C. J.
(4) The Swiss ping it around awhile, to a lusty chorus of "olé"s, led by the Brazilian contingent in the crowd I'll be bound.
(5) Could Fifty Shades of Grey, with a smart female director at the helm, usher in a new era of movies for lusty, grown-up women, even if its trashy reputation and wayward use of cable ties might not seem to be the fertile ground from which this might spring?
(6) 57 min After Zhirkov sees yellow for a typically lusty challenge, Sychev comes on to replace Saenko.
(7) 7.49pm BST 3 min: A lusty tackle by Bornw gives Karagandy a freekick some 40 yards out and a chance for the visitors to test whether Celtic have repaired their defence since last week.
(8) Since the catalytically active enzyme is a tetramer composed of four identical or closely similar subunits (Lusty, C.J., and Ratner, S. (1972) J. Biol.
(9) Scalia was, as usual, the episode's garish, garrulous villain, the kind of lusty misanthrope the word "harrumph" erupts from.
(10) Sequence analysis has revealed internal duplication within the synthetase molecule (Nyunoya, H., Broglie, K.E., Widgren, E.E., and Lusty, C.J.
(11) Hardcore taps into a 14-year-old boy’s brain, marinating in a vat of Mountain Dew, fantasising about high-energy kills, lusty women and loud music,” wrote Hoffman in September.
(12) Speeches calling for Britain to withdraw from the European Union were cheered with the lusty conviction that their dream of a divorce will turn into a reality.
(13) The Devils sat atop the UK box office chart for eight weeks, scandalising the masses with its tale of lusty priests and demented nuns in 17th-century France.
(14) In Sally's eyes, Tim is an irresistible bit of rough, dribbling with lusty physicality.
(15) Delafield, F. P. (University of California, Berkeley), M. Doudoroff, N. J. Palleroni, C. J. Lusty, and R. Contopoulos.
(16) Nasiri Bazanjani, the Iranian who cruised over the line seven metres ahead of the rest, also underlined the improvement in that country's performances at these Games and was greeted with lusty cheers as he received his gold.
(17) This has become a kind of Cannes tradition, a lusty whoop to get the proceedings under way, and it is invariably greeted with an affectionate ripple of laughter.
(18) Seen through the eyes of her sister, Elizabeth, she appears to be a vulgar, lusty hoyden, whose outrageous antics put all her sisters' reputations at risk.
(19) davidgray.com I’m getting oodles of eastern pride with lusty overtones of death or glory, I’m getting a spine of florid pomposity with top notes of Tom and Jerry, I’m getting Viennese marching music with a strong hint of moustache oil, I’m getting really bored, this thing goes on and on … Weighing in at a hefty five minutes, six seconds, this is officially the longest national anthem in the world.
(20) Arsenal striker Olivier Giroud gave the hosts the lead shortly before the hour mark but Romania levelled from the penalty spot, before Payet stepped up to arrow his shot into the top corner and prompted a lusty rendition of the La Marseillaise, sung as much in relief as in triumph.