nymphomaniacal love

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Characterized by or suffering from nymphomania.

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  • adjective Characteristic of nymphomania or a nymphomaniac

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  • adjective (used of women) affected with excessive sexual desire

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Examples

  • Yet the movie also fights for what it wants—to touch us in the course of entertaining us —and it succeeds, with its zinger-studded script that transcends clumsy mechanics and a spirited cast that includes Marisa Tomei as a nymphomaniacal middle-school teacher, and Jonah Bobo as a lovesick eighth-grader.

    Smart, Patchy, Sweet 'Crazy, Stupid, Love' Joe Morgenstern 2011

  • Folks, I honestly don't think there is anyone on the planet who loves werewolves more than I do, even if you count the nymphomaniacal furries subject to Taylor Lautner's restraining orders, and *I* didn't sit through "Tooth and Claw" more than once.

    I'm warming to Matt Smith already hradzka 2010

  • Folks, I honestly don't think there is anyone on the planet who loves werewolves more than I do, even if you count the nymphomaniacal furries subject to Taylor Lautner's restraining orders, and *I* didn't sit through "Tooth and Claw" more than once.

    I'm warming to Matt Smith already hradzka 2010

  • Women were seen as irrational, untrustworthy, incapable of self-control, and nymphomaniacal by nature.

    Cynthia Kling: Interview with Susan Squire, author of I Don't: A Contrarian History of Marriage 2008

  • Lacy brassieres, long, slender legs, nymphomaniacal women -- these are the products being peddled.

    They Want Their Mtv Back 2008

  • While it's true there are strong political undercurrents in the film, it is exceedingly bizarre for any synopsis of the film to overlook the matter of Sister Jeanne's nymphomaniacal obsession with Father Grandier.

    THE DEVILS A Hoax? and LA Bava Retro in March 2008

  • While it's true there are strong political undercurrents in the film, it is exceedingly bizarre for any synopsis of the film to overlook the matter of Sister Jeanne's nymphomaniacal obsession with Father Grandier.

    Archive 2008-02-24 2008

  • Returning to the diary, Rosa learns that Linda was nearly rehabilitated from her nymphomaniacal ways by a doctor Howard Vernon who ran a private clinic.

    Archive 2007-05-06 2007

  • Frederick thereupon makes a monster of his own (Shuler Hensley), not to mention a considerable amount of whoopee with his nubile, nymphomaniacal assistant (Sutton Foster), before finally attracting the attention of the irate local villagers and his frigid fiancée (Megan Mullally), who shows up at an extremely inopportune moment.

    The Re-'Producers' 2007

  • The work keeps him from satisfying the nymphomaniacal Elizabeth.

    CROSS OF FRANKENSTEIN by Robert J. Myers (Pocket 1976) 2005

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