Thesaurus / sensuality
EXAMPLE SENTENCES FROM THE WEB
Baudelaire had, in the matter of perfumes, a strangely subtle sensuality which is rarely to be met with except amongst Orientals.
CHARLES BAUDELAIRE, HIS LIFETHOPHILE GAUTIER
In the intervals of his serious labors Napoleon gave way to a life of sensuality, and the women were prodigal of their charms.
THE LIFE OF NAPOLEON BONAPARTEWILLIAM MILLIGAN SLOANE
I no longer habitually cherish physical sloth and luxury, which excite to excessive sensuality.
MY RELIGIONLEO TOLSTOY
In some of the faces that passed him he saw only a careless sensuality brightened by the flush of excitement.
TIN-TYPES TAKEN IN THE STREETS OF NEW YORKLEMUEL ELY QUIGG
He never lost the veneration of his countrymen,--and no veneration can last for a man steeped in sensuality.
BEACON LIGHTS OF HISTORY, VOLUME VJOHN LORD
The sinful bias in our natures—to pride, to sensuality, to falsehood, or whatever else—-will not be cured by one sharp lesson.
Her eyes, especially, had an expression of mingled sensuality and fierceness which I had never seen in any other human glance.
CARMENPROSPER MERIMEE
A man too full of the gravity of life to squander his substance in mere sensuality.
ISLAM HER MORAL AND SPIRITUAL VALUEARTHUR GLYN LEONARD
Serious people usually possess a lively sensuality, which makes them highly enjoy those innocent pleasures that are allowed them.
THE CONFESSIONS OF J. J. ROUSSEAU, COMPLETEJEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU
And indeed gross sensuality, and a destitution of high and spiritual views, characterize his whole work.
THE PORTLAND SKETCH BOOKVARIOUS
WORDS RELATED TO SENSUALITY
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- licentiousness
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
- anarchy
- animalism
- arrogance
- audacity
- boldness
- complacency
- debauchery
- disorder
- dissoluteness
- dissolution
- effrontery
- excess
- forwardness
- gluttony
- immoderation
- impropriety
- irresponsibility
- lawlessness
- laxity
- libertinism
- looseness
- presumptuousness
- prodigality
- profligacy
- refractoriness
- relaxation
- relaxedness
- sauciness
- self-indulgence
- sensuality
- slackness
- temerity
- unrestraint
- unruliness
- wantonness
- wildness
- animalism
- aphrodisia
- appetence
- appetition
- avidity
- carnality
- concupiscence
- covetousness
- craving
- cupidity
- desire
- eroticism
- excitement
- fervor
- greed
- hunger
- itch
- lasciviousness
- lechery
- lewdness
- libido
- licentiousness
- longing
- prurience
- pruriency
- salaciousness
- salacity
- sensualism
- sensuality
- thirst
- urge
- wantonness
- weakness
- yen
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