Thesaurus / lust
FEEDBACKsynonyms for lust
synonyms for lust
- craving
- desire
- excitement
- fervor
- greed
- hunger
- libido
- longing
- sensuality
- thirst
- animalism
- aphrodisia
- appetence
- avidity
- carnality
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- cupidity
- eroticism
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- lewdness
- licentiousness
- prurience
- pruriency
- salaciousness
- salacity
- sensualism
- urge
- wantonness
- weakness
- yen
- appetition
See also synonyms for: lusting
- covet
- crave
- hanker
- itch
- yearn
- ache
- long
- need
- pine
- thirst
- want
- wish
- yen
- be consumed with desire
- be hot for
- hunger for
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Few phenomena in the electronics world spark the same kind of gear lust evoked by big, cheap HDTVs.
HOW TO PICK THE RIGHT TV TO BUY ON PRIME DAYBILLY CADDENJUNE 21, 2021POPULAR-SCIENCEThe lust over its glimmer, durability and scarcity has long enchanted a humanity that’s begged, borrowed and stolen to get its hands on this malleable metal.
HARNESSING THE POWER OF GOLDSEAN CULLIGANJUNE 1, 2021OZYTo glimpse old photos of Jane and Serge is to enter a sophisticated netherworld that no longer exists, a glamorous fog of early-morning excess and possessed lust.
JANE BIRKIN IS BACK WITH A NEW ALBUM, BUT HER PRESENCE IS EVERLASTINGJEFF WEISSMARCH 19, 2021WASHINGTON POSTMilitant blood lust, commando cosplay, bright-eyed tourism and family bonding, all wrapped up together in what they decided was a fine way to spend a Wednesday afternoon.
TRUMPIST MASCULINITY REACHES ITS HIGH WATER MARKMONICA HESSEJANUARY 12, 2021WASHINGTON POSTNow Hamilton warned that Burr had no principles at all — just a simple lust for power.
THE ELECTION THAT FORESHADOWED 2020JAMES MORONEJANUARY 11, 2021WASHINGTON POSTThis lust for conquest had been seen before in the species, but only in captive colonies.
NAKED MOLE-RATS INVADE NEIGHBORING COLONIES AND STEAL BABIESJAKE BUEHLEROCTOBER 20, 2020SCIENCE NEWSHowever, their lust for glory brought them together again, and Marmont sailed with the Egyptian expedition.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONHe had lost his lust for fighting, and was soon recalled for not showing sufficient energy.
NAPOLEON'S MARSHALSR. P. DUNN-PATTISONAnd she was mad with lust after lying with them whose flesh is as the flesh of asses: and whose issue as the issue of horses.
THE BIBLE, DOUAY-RHEIMS VERSIONVARIOUSSome of the sea-ruffians carried their cruelty to insane extremes, for the lust of blood seemed to grow upon them.
THE CHEQUERSJAMES RUNCIMANWORDS RELATED TO LUST
- appetites
- ardors
- aspirations
- avidities
- cravings
- desires
- drives
- eagerness
- earnestness
- emulations
- energies
- enterprises
- enthusiasms
- fire in bellies
- get up and gos
- hankerings
- hopes
- hunger
- initiatives
- itches
- keenness
- longings
- loves
- lust
- moxies
- passions
- pretensions
- pushes
- right stuffs
- spirits
- strivings
- thirsts
- vigor
- yearnings
- zeal
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