lustful

Example Sentences

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Mr. Armitage is particularly attentive to the psychological evolution of Gilgamesh, that lustful tyrant-turned-quester, two-thirds divine, whose journey is less heroic than existential.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

"Saltburn" is a satirical take on the lustful pursuit of wealth through one man's attempts to acquire a life of privilege by proxy.

From Salon • Dec. 2, 2023

Every day we’re faced with choices, often among the good thing, the right thing, the “should”—the nice—and the selfish urge, the thing our lustful, hungry, violent animal selves want to do or not do.

From Golf Digest • Oct. 29, 2019

Years ago in an undergraduate Shakespeare paper I posited that the lustful sisters of “King Lear,” Goneril and Regan, might have been affected by stages of the moon often mentioned in that play.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 28, 2017

And if so, does this make him angry or lustful or envious or anything at all?

From "The Handmaid's Tale" by Margaret Atwood