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as in wantonness
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as in concupiscence
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Noun
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Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
8 June 2023 -
The depictions are disturbingly romantic: seminude invaders among smoldering monuments, preening with bloodlust and concupiscence.—
Cullen Murphy,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2020
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Almost immediately after the tribe agreed to the treaty, American lust for gold broke its promise.—
Kevin Fixler,
Idaho Statesman,
5 Feb. 2025
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For Kendrick, love takes the form of grace and forgiveness despite lust and infidelity. 45.—
Stephen Kearse,
Vulture,
4 Feb. 2025
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But their steamy scenes don’t always resemble the eroticism of cinema past.—
Jonathan Wolfe,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
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But a film that’s primarily selling eroticism, packed with club beats and the occasionally homoerotic visual gag?—
Nate Jones,
Vulture,
28 Jan. 2025
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2022
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Perrotta is up to his old tricks, painting a man’s thoughtless lechery in touching tones, inviting misreading.—
Katy Waldman,
The New Yorker,
13 June 2022
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Americans have always had a complicated relationship to hedonism, our first colonists having been shipped away from the British Empire for being literal Puritans.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
20 July 2024
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My headlong descent had much more to do with a willful and heedless pursuit of hedonism.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
30 Jan. 2025
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The Korean dark comedy about greed and class discrimination in a symbiotic relationship between the wealthy Park family and the destitute Kim clan grossed $53 million domestic ($260 million worldwide).—
Jill Goldsmith,
Deadline,
7 Feb. 2025
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But consumers are already blaming corporate greed and President Trump’s decision to impose 10% tariffs on all Chinese imports.—
Michael Kan,
PCMAG,
5 Feb. 2025
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But Anthony Mirande, a member of the union’s bargaining team, said he was focused on improving labor practices and voiced a desire for better staffing and more training for employees working at the courthouses.—
Jakob Rodgers,
The Mercury News,
19 Feb. 2025
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On the contrary, these works form a trail of historical and imagined personalities, full of desires and disinclinations that misalign.—
Rachel Vorona Cote,
The Atlantic,
19 Feb. 2025
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Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise.—
Deborah R. Coen,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2014
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Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2023
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“Venery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venery. Accessed 22 Feb. 2025.
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