concupiscent

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Nick Offerman, the comic he-man of Parks and Recreation, stars as Ignatius J Reilly, a gluttonous and concupiscent layabout, slothfully adrift in New Orleans.

From The Guardian • Aug. 27, 2015

This uneasy alliance between corseted but concupiscent industry and one of its most irascible critics is, perhaps, more aptly illustrated in The Caine Mutiny, which Columbia Pictures will release this summer.

From Time Magazine Archive

The audacious scope of the novel is nothing less than the anatomy of love�from filial to fraternal, from spiritual to concupiscent, from self-regarding to self-sacrificing.

From Time Magazine Archive

The stages of the conflict are many and various; and she is sorely let and hindered by the animal desires of the inferior or concupiscent steed.

From Phaedrus by Jowett, Benjamin

Trembling with fear at the audacious ambition of his concupiscent companion, the Sloven replied, “If your wish should come to the ears of the King, we shall die; indeed, we should die.”

From Hawaiian Folk Tales A Collection of Native Legends by Thrum, Thomas G. (Thomas George)