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Synonyms for lust

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Synonyms for lust

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Synonyms for lust

self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

Synonyms

have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

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ACADEMICS at Oxford University have decided after months of deliberating lust is good for us and should be a `virtue, not a sin'.
RAISE a glass to the university geniuses who've finally justified their brainiac status with the great news that lust is good for us.
And Angel's struggle to figure out a way to find love without getting pulled into a bloodsucking lust circuit is the stuff of gay fiction, gay self-help books, and controversial Michelangelo Signorile journalism but not of Veronica's Closet or even Sex and the City.
Dame Diana Rigg gives a spellbinding performance as the wicked witch brought to her hands and knees by her all-consuming lust. She claws at the walls with guilt before deciding the only way out is to take her own life.
The "proud dreams and proud lusts" of an aristocratic character, said to be so foreign to the masses of clerks, had their chief political expression in World War I.
This part is about how brand managers are enticed into the temptation of lust.
"Lust," Susie Bright writes in her terrific opening sentence, "brings out the liar in everyone." Well, everyone except Susie Bright.