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Synonyms for amorous

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Synonyms for amorous

of, concerning, or promoting sexual love or desire

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Synonyms for amorous

inclined toward or displaying love

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expressive of or exciting sexual love or romance

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She may be at the grand old age of 44 and is one of the oldest gorillas in Europe, but she still retains her species' amorous nature.
ON THE PROWL - amorous motorists often spend more time talent spotting than concentrating on the road ahead.
"Adults in later life may try to rekindle the early excitement of teenage love by getting amorous while driving."
Lisa, 38, said: "He became amorous. I told him it was inappropriate and asked him to leave."
A SWEDISH woman, tired of the noise made by her amorous neighbours in the apartment above,has taken her quest for silent nights to her local health committee.
But still, "Emmie"--with lyrics such as "Move me, oh sway me / Emily you ornament the earth for me"--made us wonder about our heroine's amorous life, let alone our own.
In a concluding chapter entitled "Venus et Sappho," Martin insists on the convergence of amorous and literary tropes in Louise Labe's work, particularly through the themes of the basium and the sun.
The practice is most prevalent in South-east England, where 64percent confessed to amorous adventures in their motors.
"All we are saying is `Can you get very amorous off-stage so that you can come and feel your role during the performance'."
As he moved from season to season, from spring through summer and autumn, his amorous attentions and energy were mightily lavished on specific women: a demure Chan Hon Go in spring, a torrid Greta Hodgkinson in summer, and an agile, expressive Martine Lamy for autumn harvest.
His chansons are boisterous, amorous, and humorous, and are usually delicate but sometimes coarsely obscene.
Encounters between male and female characters seem savage or combative, rather than playful or amorous. Still, despite the almost pornographic elaboration of anatomical detail in the multiplicity of titillating acts depicted, these images don't seem to be as much about sex (or even gender-related issues, for that matter) as they are about the disintegration of the social fabric as a whole.
AMOROUS men are being offered cash to have sex - and it's all in the name of research.
A MILKMAN who stalked women after they spurned his amorous advances escaped jail yesterday.