libidinous

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  1. adjective Having or exhibiting lustful desires; lascivious.

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  • Boulton swaggers majestically as the libidinous Charles, marrying casual geniality with cold command. —  The Stage / News Headlines
  • Michele says: Juicy, libidinous, good performers, now dry. —  Only the Blog Knows Brooklyn
  • And beyond the boundary lies the factory smoke, the sea of lights, the lure and menace of the most charismatic, libidinous, dangerous and daunting city I know: Ciudad Juárez. —  The Guardian World News
  • All but forgotten after the era's burgeoning censorship and obscenity laws shut them down, as Robbins notes, the author's recent discovery of a cache of these papers held by the American Antiquarian Society sheds new light on the magazines 'lurid tales of libidinous lechery. —  The Chicago Blog
  • The subject of sex, which cannot be usefully discussed without a measure of irony, has therefore become a painful topic among Muslims, especially when confronted, as they inevitably are, by the lax morals and libidinous confusion of Western societies. —  The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
 

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  1. Middle English, from Old French libidineux, from Latin libīdinōsus, from libīdō, libīdin-, lust, desire; see libido.

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  1. from French libidineux = Spanish Portuguese Italian libidinoso, from Latin libidinosus, lubidinosus, full of desire, passion, or appetite, lascivious, from libido, lubido (libidin-, lubidin-), desire, from libet, lubet, it pleases: see liberal.
 

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/lɪˈbɪdɪnəs/
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