How to Use libidinous in a Sentence

libidinous

adjective
  • For now, though, Libbie must try to stop a string of deaths tied to the libidinous influence of MacLane’s wicked memoir.
    Washington Post, 15 Oct. 2020
  • While Elvis Presley gave rock its libidinous, hip-shaking image, Berry was the auteur, setting the template for a new sound and way of life.
    Hillel Italie and Jim Suhr, Esquire, 18 Mar. 2017
  • And Bryan Banville is hilariously self-absorbed as the libidinous and not-too-bright Stacee Jaxx.
    Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 8 July 2019
  • His witty, libidinous lyrics spoke of girls, motorin’ and footloose fun.
    Editors, USA TODAY, 12 Dec. 2017
  • No Mountbatten, this cruel, selfish and libidinous prince isn’t the sort a monarch would want getting close to his teenage daughter.
    Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 12 June 2023
  • Eileen keeps playing this libidinous cat-and-mouse game, coyly watching as the stronger woman starts to show odd signs of weakness and the weaker of the two becomes more assured.
    David Fear, Rolling Stone, 2 Dec. 2023
  • The Playboy Mansion’s history as a den of iniquity is true, but most of the more libidinous stories date from the distant past.
    Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 30 July 2016
  • The Skull of Sam, which is about libidinous teens making bad decisions with gory consequences, is by far the stronger of the two Campfire Creepers installments.
    Adi Robertson, The Verge, 27 May 2018
  • Gala will play Neifile, a God-fearing, libidinous woman of paradoxes.
    Rick Porter, The Hollywood Reporter, 14 Dec. 2022
  • Heavy cannons are Freudian winks at the opera’s libidinous energies.
    Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 30 Mar. 2023
  • His seminal 2011 mixtape, House of Balloons, was like the woozy soundtrack to an endless, libidinous loop of willful couch crashing.
    Will Dukes, Rolling Stone, 7 Jan. 2022
  • Years later, Kasie has put her life aside to support her bedridden father (James Kang) by catering to the pleasures of libidinous businessmen as a karaoke-room hostess.
    New York Times, 7 Sep. 2019
  • Thankfully, for women, the law now subdues the libidinous madman’s ravings.
    Madeleine Kearns, National Review, 1 Oct. 2020
  • That is changed, thank goodness, when certain members of the crew decide to get off the suppression juice and stage a rebellion that restores limited amounts of libidinous behavior.
    Joe Morgenstern, WSJ, 8 Apr. 2021
  • Haven’t most men of my generation, as our phone cameras got sharper and the dating app pools got more selective, taken a libidinous bathroom selfie?
    Jason Farago, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020
  • The storytelling feels too libidinous and crude (and occasionally gruesome) for middle grade or young adult readers.
    Ethan Gilsdorf, New York Times, 24 Aug. 2017
  • Below Deck — some of the most libidinous, raucous shows on television — ended up revealing that, actually, none of this is that hard to understand.
    Monica Hesse, Washington Post, 4 Sep. 2023
  • They’re at times deceitful, manipulative and gleefully libidinous – in other words, all the things straight male characters have been allowed to be for years.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 30 Aug. 2023
  • If Jungle Cruise feels like the product of people who have forgotten how to do romance, it’s because romance is not something studio movies bother with much anymore — let alone anything libidinous.
    Alison Willmore, Vulture, 5 Aug. 2021
  • Diego is among several other tortoises who had been held in captivity to participate in a breeding program, but Diego is the most famous due, in part, to his libidinous nature.
    Daisy Hernandez, Popular Mechanics, 19 June 2020
  • Talbot is currently facing eight charges of indecent assault as well as one charge of lewd, indecent and libidinous behavior.
    Tom Breihan, Billboard, 17 May 2017
  • One can imagine, however, that a libidinous corpsman (pardon the redundancy) who discovers a picture of a semi-nude or nude female Marine might be inspired to share it.
    Kathleen Parker, The Denver Post, 9 Mar. 2017
  • Unsurprisingly, few paid attention — and those who did tended to be confused or scandalized by her blunt lyrics, outlandish outfits and libidinous moves.
    Joe Lynch, Billboard, 9 Feb. 2022
  • Wolpe and Kudisch are solid as the manipulating brothers, with Kudisch having libidinous fun in a number with Longoria and a floor polisher.
    Frank Rizzo, Variety, 7 June 2022
  • Just how much is evidenced by the cocktail menu at the Bloomsbury Club Bar, which features, along with creative libations, an intricate diagram of the group’s wildly libidinous undertakings.
    Brian Melton, star-telegram, 20 Apr. 2018
  • Contrary to his extremely libidinous, womanizing persona, Andrew did not seem like a ladies’ man and was rarely seen in the company of women, another source close to his reality TV career says.
    Ioana Erdei, Rolling Stone, 26 Jan. 2023
  • In award-winning portraits of his friend Robert Andy Coombs, a fellow-photographer who is gay and quadriplegic, Solomon asserts paralyzed bodies as libidinous beings.
    Eren Orbey, The New Yorker, 6 Feb. 2020
  • Advertisement By the 1980s, when her romance with Gainsbourg ended and her relationship with Doillon began, her style had shifted from mod, glam and libidinous to understated and casual.
    Rachel Tashjian, Washington Post, 16 July 2023
  • Incarcerated, not so much for his libidinous ways, but for gambling, cheating tourists, his flagrant libertinism in the face of the Venetian Inquisition, and his heretical interests in alchemy and the kabbalah.
    Gaile Robinson, star-telegram, 30 Aug. 2017
  • Whereas Haber, the editor-in-chief, was an intensely private man, virtually unknowable to his staff, Coulianos was a big-spending, flagrantly libidinous extrovert.
    David Kamp, GQ, 23 June 2017

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