Lust
noun
Very strong sexual desire.
He was consumed by lust for her
Often appears as...
- burning lust
- consumed by lust
noun
A passionate desire for something.
A lust for power
Often appears as...
- lust for power
- lust for wealth
verb
Have a very strong sexual desire for someone.
He really lusted after her
Often appears as...
- lusted after
- lusted for
verb
Feel a strong desire for something.
He was lusting for power
Often appears as...
- lusting for power
- lusting for wealth
noun
Very strong sexual desire.
He was consumed by lust for her
Often appears as...
- burning lust
- consumed by lust
noun
A passionate desire for something.
A lust for power
Often appears as...
- lust for power
- lust for wealth
verb
Have a very strong sexual desire for someone.
He really lusted after her
Often appears as...
- lusted after
- lusted for
verb
Feel a strong desire for something.
He was lusting for power
Often appears as...
- lusting for power
- lusting for wealth
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Pro Tip 1/3Intensity
Used to express a very intense form of desire that can overwhelm a person.
The millionaire's lust for new ventures seemed insatiable.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often has a negative implication, suggesting an overpowering and potentially harmful obsession.
His eyes revealed a relentless lust that made her uneasy.
Pro Tip 3/3Inappropriate Usage
Avoid using 'lust' in formal or professional contexts, as it relates to sexual desire.
Speaking of lust in the workplace led to a conversation with HR.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity
Used to express a very intense form of desire that can overwhelm a person.
The millionaire's lust for new ventures seemed insatiable.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often has a negative implication, suggesting an overpowering and potentially harmful obsession.
His eyes revealed a relentless lust that made her uneasy.
Pro Tip 3/3Inappropriate Usage
Avoid using 'lust' in formal or professional contexts, as it relates to sexual desire.
Speaking of lust in the workplace led to a conversation with HR.
Pro Tip 1/3Intensity
Used to express a very intense form of desire that can overwhelm a person.
The millionaire's lust for new ventures seemed insatiable.
Pro Tip 2/3Negative Connotation
Often has a negative implication, suggesting an overpowering and potentially harmful obsession.
His eyes revealed a relentless lust that made her uneasy.
Pro Tip 3/3Inappropriate Usage
Avoid using 'lust' in formal or professional contexts, as it relates to sexual desire.
Speaking of lust in the workplace led to a conversation with HR.
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Why we love, why we...
those are associated with attachment. This is why you can feel such a sense of cosmic union with somebody after you've made love to them. But these three brain lust, romantic love and attachment, aren't always connected to each other. You can feel deep attachment to a long-term partner
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Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...
they care that we replicate, that we pass our genes on. So for example we have three systems that underlie reproduction, because it's so important. There's lust, which is just wanting to have sex. And that's really mediated by the sex hormones. Romantic attraction,
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How Advertisers Joined...
their cleaning products and they sold them just about any way they could even by co-opting someone's name listerine antiseptic the most widely used antiseptic in the world kills germs instantly listerine is named after joseph luster who was a surgeon who
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Science can answer moral...
female specialness it helps build that and it's an expression it's a result of the fact that and is arguably a sophisticated psychological view that male lust is not to be trusted ROH I mean can you engage in a conversation with that kind of woman
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Science can answer moral...
of female specialness, it helps build that and it's a result of the fact that" -- and this is arguably a sophisticated psychological view -- "that male lust is not to be trusted." I mean, can you engage in a conversation
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Inside the mind of a...
about their dreams for such a life. Victims of these two young boys, sleeping rough on the ground, looking up at the stars, cynically exploited by their leaders for their personal lust for glory and power.
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The myth of King Midas...
His life, he thought, was lacking luster; what he needed was more gold. The god sent the power to turn anything the king touched to gold surging through Midas. Ecstatic, he turned to his possessions.
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Gero Miesenboeck...
and also controlled with light. That's exactly what I do -- optical mind control. But in contrast to my evil twin who lusts after world domination, my motives are not sinister.
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Bobby Ghosh: Why global...
It is a struggle within, a struggle against vice, sin, temptation, lust, greed. It is a struggle to try and live a life that is set by the moral codes written in the Koran.
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Violent Elephant Seal...
but females are not simply passive recipients of male lust although it looks as though competitive males have sex all their own way they don't
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Why we love, why we...
those are associated with attachment. This is why you can feel such a sense of cosmic union with somebody after you've made love to them. But these three brain lust, romantic love and attachment, aren't always connected to each other. You can feel deep attachment to a long-term partner
Video examples
Nancy Etcoff: Happiness...
they care that we replicate, that we pass our genes on. So for example we have three systems that underlie reproduction, because it's so important. There's lust, which is just wanting to have sex. And that's really mediated by the sex hormones. Romantic attraction,
Video examples
How Advertisers Joined...
their cleaning products and they sold them just about any way they could even by co-opting someone's name listerine antiseptic the most widely used antiseptic in the world kills germs instantly listerine is named after joseph luster who was a surgeon who
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
female specialness it helps build that and it's an expression it's a result of the fact that and is arguably a sophisticated psychological view that male lust is not to be trusted ROH I mean can you engage in a conversation with that kind of woman
Video examples
Science can answer moral...
of female specialness, it helps build that and it's a result of the fact that" -- and this is arguably a sophisticated psychological view -- "that male lust is not to be trusted." I mean, can you engage in a conversation
Video examples
Inside the mind of a...
about their dreams for such a life. Victims of these two young boys, sleeping rough on the ground, looking up at the stars, cynically exploited by their leaders for their personal lust for glory and power.
Video examples
The myth of King Midas...
His life, he thought, was lacking luster; what he needed was more gold. The god sent the power to turn anything the king touched to gold surging through Midas. Ecstatic, he turned to his possessions.
Video examples
Gero Miesenboeck...
and also controlled with light. That's exactly what I do -- optical mind control. But in contrast to my evil twin who lusts after world domination, my motives are not sinister.
Video examples
Bobby Ghosh: Why global...
It is a struggle within, a struggle against vice, sin, temptation, lust, greed. It is a struggle to try and live a life that is set by the moral codes written in the Koran.
Video examples
Violent Elephant Seal...
but females are not simply passive recipients of male lust although it looks as though competitive males have sex all their own way they don't
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Jeremy Camp
American Musician
People who are in jobs are striving to gain the most they can before they die through financial means, through their flesh, the lust of their flesh and man's drive for power. But as believers we are to be the opposite. We are to be humble, not prideful. We are to think of things that are true, whatever is noble, and whatever is worthy.
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Jennifer Winget
Indian Actress
There's a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can't just creep in. You'll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you've worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn't live there anymore.
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Paul Bloom
Canadian Psychologist
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
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Cody Rhodes
American Wrestler
When guys leave - whether they decide to leave or they're forced out - there's usually this period of time we see them around the world, and they can ride that WWE wave and use it, and then it goes away. It loses its luster after a few months.
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Paul Auster
American Author
We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
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Tori Amos
American Musician
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
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Preity Zinta
Indian Actress
If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.
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Aleister Crowley
English Critic
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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Ethel Waters
American Musician
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
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Christopher Meloni
American Actor
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
Quote examples
Jeremy Camp
American Musician
People who are in jobs are striving to gain the most they can before they die through financial means, through their flesh, the lust of their flesh and man's drive for power. But as believers we are to be the opposite. We are to be humble, not prideful. We are to think of things that are true, whatever is noble, and whatever is worthy.
Quote examples
Jennifer Winget
Indian Actress
There's a difference between lust and passionate love. Lust can't just creep in. You'll not find it where true love exists, but it has power enough to shatter the world you've worked so hard to create with love, and sometimes, it suddenly changes how you perceived love to begin with. Love then doesn't live there anymore.
Quote examples
Paul Bloom
Canadian Psychologist
The enjoyment we get from something is powerfully influenced by what we think that thing really is. This is true for intellectual pleasures, such as the appreciation of paintings and stories, and it is true as well for pleasures that seem simpler and more animalistic, such as the satisfaction of hunger and lust.
Quote examples
Cody Rhodes
American Wrestler
When guys leave - whether they decide to leave or they're forced out - there's usually this period of time we see them around the world, and they can ride that WWE wave and use it, and then it goes away. It loses its luster after a few months.
Quote examples
Paul Auster
American Author
We all die, we all get sick, we all feel hunger and lust and pain, and therefore human life is consistent from one generation to the other. We all - most of us, anyway - want connections with other people and spend our lives looking for them.
Quote examples
Tori Amos
American Musician
In our minds, love and lust are really separated. It's hard to find someone that can be kind and you can trust enough to leave your kids with, and isn't afraid to throw her man up against the wall and lick him from head to toe.
Quote examples
Preity Zinta
Indian Actress
If there is honesty in your face, the battle is won. It doesn't have to be the most beautiful face in the world. The audience can relate to you then. They feel love, not lust, for you.
Quote examples
Aleister Crowley
English Critic
I can imagine myself on my death-bed, spent utterly with lust to touch the next world, like a boy asking for his first kiss from a woman.
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Ethel Waters
American Musician
Mom was the greatest influence of my childhood. She wanted to save me from the vice, lust, and drinking that was all about me.
Quote examples
Christopher Meloni
American Actor
If you take life at face value, it loses its luster pretty quickly. If you go after it, you get more out of it.
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