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as in wantonness
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as in concupiscence
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for venery
Noun
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Gregory of Nyssa, contemplating the Christian horror of concupiscence, once theorized that had not Adam and Eve sinned, the two of them would have remained virgins and reproduced in whatever way angels did.—
David Harsanyi,
National Review,
8 June 2023 -
The depictions are disturbingly romantic: seminude invaders among smoldering monuments, preening with bloodlust and concupiscence.—
Cullen Murphy,
The Atlantic,
9 June 2020
Noun
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Trump’s pettiness and lust for vengeance are un-American Like white on rice, Trump is all over you, President Zelenskyy.—
Sabrina Haake,
Chicago Tribune,
22 Feb. 2025
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This simmering drama set at a cruising beach drips with longing, lust, and the breezy freedom of a warm and sunny day spent by the water watching bodies glisten.—
Jordan Crucchiola,
Vulture,
13 Feb. 2025
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But the choice can make for a thrilling contrast to the eroticism on display: This is a world of blood and viscera, body fluids, and entrails, and Kurzel is going to show you all of it.—
Ryan Lattanzio,
IndieWire,
18 Feb. 2025
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But their steamy scenes don’t always resemble the eroticism of cinema past.—
Jonathan Wolfe,
New York Times,
20 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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Harper is under siege by multiple manifestations of toxic masculinity—lechery, neediness, condescension, even Geoffrey’s uncomfortable banter.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
25 May 2022
Noun
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Americans have always had a complicated relationship to hedonism, our first colonists having been shipped away from the British Empire for being literal Puritans.—
Rebecca Jennings,
Vox,
20 July 2024
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My headlong descent had much more to do with a willful and heedless pursuit of hedonism.—
Rachel DeSantis,
People.com,
30 Jan. 2025
Noun
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Attempts to cast him as a staunch proponent of American restraint or opponent of corporate greed do not reflect his pre-political career, never fit his first-term policies, and don’t describe his current ones.—
Yair Rosenberg,
The Atlantic,
20 Feb. 2025
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For Schomburg, a tale of greed and disregard for the wider population is actually inspiring given the actions of the people who came together to expose the fraud.—
Stewart Clarke,
Deadline,
20 Feb. 2025
Noun
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That desire for better packing solutions inspired her to create Ries, which offers leak-proof reusable and washable travel containers.—
Kristin Braswell,
Travel + Leisure,
19 Feb. 2025
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In its ruling, the court said that Mr. Kimura, who was unemployed, had tried to kill the prime minister out of a desire to gain public attention.—
Martin Fackler,
New York Times,
19 Feb. 2025
Noun
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Or consider the explorers who left a cold and hungry Europe in search of tropical riches, only to realize that their own rapacity could quickly exhaust the bounty of an island paradise.—
Deborah R. Coen,
Foreign Affairs,
12 Feb. 2014
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Adjacent to the Gold Room was the Bravo Bazaar, a mall of real commercial rapacity.—
Doreen St. Félix,
The New Yorker,
17 Nov. 2023
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“Venery.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/venery. Accessed 3 Mar. 2025.
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