Definition of lust

"lust" in the noun sense

1. lecherousness, lust, lustfulness

a strong sexual desire

2. lust, luxuria

self-indulgent sexual desire (personified as one of the deadly sins)

"lust" in the verb sense

1. crave, hunger, thirst, starve, lust

have a craving, appetite, or great desire for

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Quotations for lust

Lust - hard by fate. [ Milton ]

Even lust and envy sleep. [ Dryden ]

The accursed lust of gold. [ Virgil ]

A man addicted to every lust.

Idleness and lust are sworn friends. [ Proverb ]

Ambition is a lust that's never quenched,
Grows more inflamed, and madder by enjoyment. [ Otway ]

O happiness of blindness! now no beauty
Inflames my lust; no other's goods my envy,
Or misery my pity; no man's wealth
Draws my respect; nor poverty my scorn,
Yet still I see enough! man to himself
Is a large prospect, raised above the level
Of his low creeping thoughts; if then I have
A world within myself, that world shall be
My empire; there I'll reign, commanding freely,
And willingly obeyed, secure from fear
Of foreign forces, or domestic treasons. [ Denham ]

O cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake
The fool throws up his interest in both worlds. [ Blair ]

The soul whose bosom lust did never touch
Is God's fair bride, and maidens' souls are such. [ Decker ]

Tears harden lust, though marble wear with raining. [ William Shakespeare ]

The lust of fame is the last that a wise man shakes off. [ Tac ]

A man is known to be mortal by two things : sleep and lust. [ English Proverb, collected by George Herbert ]

Lust yielded to is a pleasant madness, but it is a desperate madness when opposed. [ Bp. Hall ]

This avarice sticks deeper; grows with more pernicious root than summer-seeding lust. [ William Shakespeare ]

Friendship is too pure a pleasure for a mind cankered with ambition or the lust of power and grandeur. [ Junius ]

The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast. [ Tacitus ]

The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquest; The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! The last corruption of degenerate man. [ Samuel Johnson ]

The lust of avarice has so totally seized upon mankind that their wealth seems rather to possess them than they possess their wealth. [ Pliny ]

O cursed lust of gold; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds, First starved in this, then damn'd in that to come. [ Blair ]

Avarice has ruined more men than prodigality, and the blindest thoughtlessness of expenditure has not destroyed so many fortunes as the calculating but insatiable lust of accumulation. [ Colton ]

If wealth come, beware of him, the smooth, false friend! There is treachery in his proffered hand; his tongue is eloquent to tempt; lust of many harms is lurking in his eye; he hath a hollow heart; use him cautiously. [ Tupper ]

Social dissipation, as witnessed in the ball-room, is the abettor of pride, the instigator of jealousv, it is the (sacrificial altar of health, it is the defiler of the soul, it is the avenue of lust and it is the curse of every tower in America. [ Talmage ]

lust in Scrabble®

The word lust is playable in Scrabble®, no blanks required.

Scrabble® Letter Score: 4

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lust in Words With Friends™

The word lust is playable in Words With Friends™, no blanks required.

Words With Friends™ Letter Score: 6

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Words containing the sequence lust

Words with lust in them (134 words)

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Words that end with lust (3 words)

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