(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.
Venereal
Definition:
(a.) Of or pertaining to venery, or sexual love; relating to sexual intercourse.
(a.) Arising from sexual intercourse; as, a venereal disease; venereal virus or poison.
(a.) Adapted to the cure of venereal diseases; as, venereal medicines.
(a.) Adapted to excite venereal desire; aphrodisiac.
(a.) Consisting of, or pertaining to, copper, formerly called by chemists Venus.
(n.) The venereal disease; syphilis.
Example Sentences:
(1) Cytomegalovirus (CMV) was isolated from cervical secretions of 10 of 121 outpatients at a venereal disease clinic.
(2) These scattered rebellions by HMV workers stand in a venerable tradition.
(3) Venereal Disease Research Laboratories (VDRL) and Treponema pallidum hemagglutination (TPHA) tests became positive during hospitalization, and dark-field examination was positive for Treponemas, thus allowing the diagnosis of chancre of the rectum.
(4) It was the exigencies of World War II that brought about the 1st, largescale systematic promotion of condoms to prevent venereal disease.
(5) In 55 women (0.15%) both the Treponema pallidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA) and the venereal disease research laboratory (VDRL) tests were positive.
(6) The transmission of adult genital tract viruses to children occurs primarily by a venereal route but may occur by a nonvenereal route.
(7) Sixty-four canine cutaneous round cell tumors were divided into 25 mast cell tumors, 15 histiocytomas, nine cutaneous lymphosarcomas and 15 transmissible venereal tumors.
(8) In the second study, an attempt was made to validate the findings from the first study by comparing data from RP and NRP venereal disease patients drawn from medical and social case histories from a second hospital.
(9) Homosexuals are also at risk of venereal transmiddion of infection.
(10) Many sera were also tested with the quantitative Venereal Disease Research Laboratory test.
(11) HIV-infected persons had significantly more lifetime sex partners than uninfected persons; other risk factors were a prior history of venereal disease, blood transfusion, travel abroad, and a positive syphilis serology.
(12) The Ayn Rand Institute in Irvine, California , venerates the late philosopher as a prophet of unfettered capitalism who showed America the way.
(13) The use of condoms could be increased by better information programs regarding venereal disease.
(14) The non specific serological tests are the non treponemal tests such as the Venereal Disease Laboratory Test (VDRL) and the Rapid Plasma Reagin Test (RPR).
(15) A good number of our clients (40.5%) used condom because it protects them against venereal disease while others felt it was safe and effective.
(16) In recent years, Chinese companies have been busy buying up internationally renowned brands and landmarks, including New York’s Waldorf Astoria hotel, the former headquarters of Chase Manhattan Bank and, in the UK, the venerable Weetabix.
(17) A false Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) test was present in four of the patients, three had a previous episode of arterial or venous thrombosis, or both, and two had thrombocytopenia.
(18) There are now a variety of rapid test methods available to assist in the diagnosis of the three most common infectious diseases seen in ambulatory medicine: pharyngitis, urinary tract infection, and venereal disease.
(19) The fifth had concurrent neurosyphilis and was VDRL-test (Venereal Disease Research Laboratory) negative 2 years prior to the onset of symptoms.
(20) In order to determine whether pregnancy influences the specificity of the fluorescent treponemal antibody absorption (FTA-ABS) and Treponema palidum haemagglutination assay (TPHA) tests, these tests, together with the quantitative fluorescent treponemal antibody (FTA) and Venereal Disease Research Laboratory (VDRL) tests, were carried out simultaneously on 2000 pregnant women who attended for compulsory prenatal screening.