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
Mario Vargas Llosa's autobiographical novel Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter amorously paired a young man with an older woman.
From Time Magazine Archive
The best things in the first issue: French Artist Raymond Peynet's amorously whimsical drawings, a sepia and black Baedeker of Morocco, a new Tennessee Williams short story.
From Time Magazine Archive
And yet, Erskine, I must tell you, that I have been a little pensive of late, amorously pensive, and disposed to read Shenstone's Pastoral on Absence, the tenderness and simplicity of which I greatly admire.
From Boswell's Correspondence with the Honourable Andrew Erskine, and His Journal of a Tour to Corsica by George Birkbeck Norman Hill
