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luscious
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Look Homeward, Angel
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- And he thought lusciously of mysterious and succulent food.†
Chpt 1 *
- Smiling lusciously, and stroking himself with gentle fingers, Mr. Leonard turned back to the lesson.†
Chpt 2
- Insanely tickled at the cadences of his agreement, the earnest placidity and oblivion of the old woman, and the extravagant pretense of the whole situation, his face flooded with wild exultancy, he would croon in a fat luscious bawdily suggestive voice: "Y-ah-s?†
Chpt 2luscious = very desirable
- Or to be, he lusciously meditated, left alone with a group of pretty women in a town whence all the other people had fled from some terror of plague, earthquake, volcano, or other menace to which he, quite happily, was immune.†
Chpt 2
- He brooded lusciously a moment.†
Chpt 2
- "We will go off somewhere alone—we will take along something to eat," he said lusciously.†
Chpt 3
- "Beer!" he muttered lusciously.†
Chpt 3
- He saw himself walking up the Champs-Elysées, with a handsome powdering of gray hair above his temples, a left forearm of the finest cork, and the luscious young widow of a French marshal at his side.†
Chpt 3luscious = very desirable
Definitions:
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(1)
(luscious) richly appealing to the senses -- especially taste, smell, or appearance -- often used for delicious food, attractive appearance, or sensuous beauty
- (2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)