amorous
adjective
inclined or disposed to love, especially sexual love.
amorously
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a word derived from
amorous.
Example Sentences
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It comforts, it satiates and its redolent with flavor, humor and images of cartoon couples amorously sharing a single strand of tomato-laced noodle.
From Salon ● Aug. 18, 2021
Jamie Lloyd's first-rate production intersplices the martial and the romantic to disturbing effect from the beginning: light filters prettily through Christopher Oram's lovely louvred-door design on to the couple tussling amorously in bed.
From The Guardian ● Sep. 25, 2010
Playwright Logan's Lucy Andree Rans-dall is turned into a rather more aware heroine, and amorously lost lady, than Chekhov's Madame Ranevskaya.
From Time Magazine Archive
Mario Vargas Llosa's autobiographical novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter amorously paired a young man with an older woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
But, while the Maori myth conceives of Heaven and Earth as of two beings which have never been separated before, Hesiod makes Heaven amorously approach his wife from a distance.
From Custom and Myth New Edition by Andrew Lang
