lusty

Speech parts

1. lusty - Adjective

3. lusty - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Exhibiting lust or vigor; stout; strong; vigorous; robust; healthful; able of body.

Beautiful; handsome; pleasant.

Of large size; big. [Obs.] " Three lusty vessels." Evelyn. Hence, sometimes, pregnant.

Lustful; lascivious.

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Examples

What critics call dirty in our pictures, they call lusty in foreign films. Billy Wilder

Give me a spirit that on this life's rough sea Loves t'have his sails filled with a lusty wind, Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack, And his ship run on her side so low That she drinks water, and her keel plows air. George Chapman

For it giveth unto all lovers courage, that lusty month of May. Thomas Malory

Lately I've been thinking how much I miss my lady. Amoreena's in the cornfield brightening the daybreak, Living like a lusty flower, running through the grass for hours, Rolling through the hay like a puppy child. Elton John

Strength instead of being the lusty child of passion, grows by grappling with and subduing them. J. M. Barrie

Him did Galatia dare to provoke to war in lusty pride. Statius

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