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
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
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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
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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
The sensitive concupiscent appetite is again subdivided into six passions: 1, love; 2, hate; 3, desire; 4, aversion; 5, joy; 6, sadness.
From The Spirit of St. Francis de Sales by Camus, Jean Pierre
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.