lustful

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It is the cruelty in your strength, it is something away back in you--lustful, and ferocious, and wild, and crouching He smiled wryly It is my local color, maybe--absorbed from this country.

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  1. adjective Excited or driven by lust.

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  1. from Middle English lustful from Anglo-Saxon lustfull, desirous, from lust, desire, + full, full: see lust and -ful.
 

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/ˈləstfəl/
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