carnal
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He told me, “Hey carnal, I’m going to invite you to be on my album.”
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 4, 2025
But for all his uses of food as a source of carnal provocation and capitalist fracturing, Bong also allows food to be the root of love and community.
From Salon • Mar. 25, 2025
But same-sex relationships are criminalised by a criminal code which Dr Adjepong calls "completely vague" - introduced by the British when they ruled Ghana - that mentions "unnatural carnal knowledge".
From BBC • Mar. 10, 2021
“The geekiness — the fact that orange wine is challenging, that its appeal is more cerebral and gastronomic than carnal and epicurean — is central to its identity,” he writes.
From Washington Post • Sep. 27, 2019
Patriotism is a ray of inner light, and may never even come to a glow of carnal courage; on the other hand, it is the greatest mistake to impute cowardice to the shirker.
From Notes of a Camp-Follower on the Western Front by Hornung, E. W. (Ernest William)
Vocabulary lists containing carnal
"Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" by Jonathan Edwards
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Body Language: Carn ("Flesh")
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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