[ UK /lɪbˈɪdɪnəs/ ]
ADJECTIVE
  1. driven by lust; preoccupied with or exhibiting lustful desires
    libidinous orgies
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How To Use libidinous In A Sentence

  • Her risqué performance during the Onyx Hotel tour proved once and for all that she has successfully made the transition from virginal adolescence to libidinous adulthood, to the consternation of some and joy of others.
  • Freud approaches this situation by way of the model of the primeval id set against the cultivations of the superego; Marcuse counterpoints the libidinous Eros impulse against the regulating structures of Civilisation.
  • Powell let his libidinous imagination run away with him.
  • I'll grant that everyone, even libidinous crooners, have bad days.
  • And despite her remarkable command of languages, razor-sharp mind and transcendent abilities as a ruler -- "every bit Caesar's equal as a coolheaded, clear-eyed pragmatist" -- it is the libidinous queen who lives on. Stacy Schiff's new biography of "Cleopatra," reviewed by Maria Arana
  • Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
  • His articles and alliteration (Lord Dudley was accused of ‘libidinous lecheries and lascivious lapses’) were immensely popular with the working class and Truth's circulation skyrocketed.
  • A perceptive woman, gifted with a modern vision, a frank subjectivity and a libidinous persona which invited attention from her contemporaries.
  • So then the question perhaps becomes, why should we care about these characters and their libidinous vacillations? Ilana Teitelbaum: Please, Just Get Married Already: The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides
  • Taking on the libidinous cool of their idols but slowing things down a good deal, these guys certainly don't seem to mind extended patches of instrumental repetition, just as long as they've struck upon something cool.
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