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luscious
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  • Chocolate is ... brown and luscious!  (source)
    luscious = very desirable
  • For who could hate or bear a grudge Against a luscious bit of fudge?  (source)
    luscious = delicious
  • Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants.†  (source)
    luscious = very desirable
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  • But despite her sorrow, she's never been so luscious.†  (source)
    luscious = very desirable
  • And he thought lusciously of mysterious and succulent food.†  (source)
  • The naked women are presented in the same manner as the plates of meat and dead lobsters, with the same attention to the play of candlelight on skin, the same lusciousness, the same sensuous and richly rendered detail, the same painterly delight in tactility.†  (source)
    standard suffix: The suffix "-ness" converts an adjective to a noun that means the quality of. This is the same pattern you see in words like darkness, kindness, and coolness.
  • I stood mesmerized by the heat and the luscious scent until the rain interfered, running its icy fingers down my back, forcing me back to life.†  (source)
  • Smiling lusciously, and stroking himself with gentle fingers, Mr. Leonard turned back to the lesson.†  (source)
  • When a chicken was slaughtered for dinner, the girls would get the wings and the neck while the luscious breast meat was enjoyed by my father, his brother and my grandfather.†  (source)
  • There was so much to eat, such variety and abundance, that each time her breath stopped, her eyes actually filmed over with emotion, and with slow and elaborate gravity she would choose from this sourly fragrant, opulent, heroic squander of food: a pickled egg here, there a slice of salami, half a loaf of pumpernickel, lusciously glazed and black.†  (source)
  • THE LUSCIOUS-LOOKING WHITE OR YELLOW FRUIT IS ABUNDANT IN SOUTHEAST ASIA.†  (source)
  • "We will go off somewhere alone—we will take along something to eat," he said lusciously.†  (source)
  • If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered.†  (source)
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