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luscious

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1. luscious - Adjective

2. luscious - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Sweet; delicious; very grateful to the taste; toothsome; excessively sweet or rich.

Cloying; fulsome.

Gratifying a depraved sense; obscene.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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What wondrous life in this I lead! Ripe apples drop about my head; The luscious clusters of the vine Upon my mouth do crush their wine; The nectarine and curious peach Into my hands themselves do reach; Stumbling on melons, as I pass, Ensnared with flowers, I fall on grass. Andrew Marvell

At the first test I really started to go through a couple of names and I like the name Liz and Luscious Liz fits quite well, I think. It's an attractive car, it's quick and successful. But the main attribute naturally should be that she's bloody quick. Sebastian Vettel

There is no real need for decorations when throwing a barbecue party - let the summer garden, in all its vibrant and luscious splendour, speak for itself. Pippa Middleton

I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine. William Shakespeare

There are those who strive to stamp with disrepute The luscious food, because it feeds the brute; In tropes of high-strain'd wit, while gaudy prigs Compare thy nursling man to pamper'd pigs; With sovereign scorn I treat the vulgar jest, Nor fear to share thy bounties with the beast. Joel Barlow

Luscious feet that listened to the soil and stole its secrets. Fannie Hurst

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