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very desirablein various senses, including:
- delicious — especially sweet and juicy — as in "a luscious peach"
- pleasing or delightful — as in "the luscious scenery"
- sexually appealing — as in "Can you introduce me to that luscious woman in the skimpy bikini?"
- a bowl of luscious-looking peaches
luscious = very desirable
- a luscious girl with luscious lips
- The book is filled with luscious landscape photographs.
- For who could hate or bear a grudge
Against a luscious bit of fudge?Roald Dahl -- Charlie And The Chocolate Factory - Chocolate is ... brown and luscious!Sharon M. Draper -- Tears of a Tiger
- It was a clear little stream which ran quite merrily along on its narrow way through the luscious damp greenness.Frances Hodgson Burnett -- The Secret Garden
- Yes, buy them, by all means; and may the peaches be luscious in your mouth, Judge Pyncheon!Nathaniel Hawthorne -- The House of the Seven Gables
- Her hair is thick and brown, the color of a rotten branch teeming with luscious ants.Katherine Applegate -- The One and Only Ivan
- If you didn't smell so appallingly luscious, he might not have bothered.Stephenie Meyer -- Twilight
- Bright the carriage looked, sleek the horses looked, gleaming the harness looked, luscious and lasting the liveries looked.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit
- The cheeses hardening at the edges, the sulfur-drenched grapes, luscious and shiny as wax, plumped with blood from the dying field workers of California.Margaret Atwood -- Cat's Eye
- He spotted a harp in one corner, a loom in another, and a big cooking pot where the stew was bubbling, filling the cavern with luscious smells.Rick Riordan -- The House of Hades
- She took the prescription and gave him one last, luscious smile.W. Somerset Maugham -- Of Human Bondage
- In the early days when I looked on Lois as merely the luscious machine, I had allowed certain scarcely perceptible changes to be made in my appearance.Robert Penn Warren -- All the King's Men
- My suffering was increased by my certainty that no tomato would ever let her luscious bosom heave against my chest.Russell Baker -- Growing Up
- Her cheeks were hollow and her mouth small, not luscious, more like a slit drawn hastily with a marker or a child's crayon.Sarah Dessen -- That Summer
- See you tonight, luscious.Ellen Hopkins -- Crank
- I imagined greenwheat and cornfields spreading over the mountainsides, luscious fruits hanging down from the branches of the trees.Li Cunxin -- Mao's Last Dancer
- They freeze and hang, beautifully red and luscious-looking, for the whole winter—the color truly is wonderful against the snow.Gary Paulsen -- Woodsong
- Grapes, plums, pears, melons were ripe and luscious.Zane Grey -- The Heritage of the Desert
luscious = delicious
luscious = very desirable
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