sensually

[ sen-shoo-uh-lee ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adverb

in a carnal or fleshly way that is preoccupied with the gratification of the senses or physical appetites:
In our sensually dominated society, the habit of acting out fantasy is becoming a cultural norm.
in an unchaste or immoral and unrestrained way:
Today we are increasingly bombarded with sensually explicit images from the internet, television, movies, and print advertising.
in a way that arouses or excites the senses or physical appetites:
This sensually calculated music is made to move people onto the dance floor—and beyond.
in a worldly, materialistic, or irreligious way:
Those who think merely naturally and sensually do not allow their minds to be lifted up into spiritual light.
in a way that relates to the senses or physical sensation:
Learning happens best when the demand on a learner's "working memory" meets the ability to sensually process the information through both channels—auditory and visual.

A beautiful, naked, self-confident woman, sensually cradling...a cod?

His eyes sparkled sensually, incoherent sounds issued from between his clenched teeth.

She charmed him sensually, but other women had done likewise; she was beautiful, but he could conceive of greater beauty.

He was enormously fat, and breathed heavily through clean shaven lips that protruded sensually.

Wild animals signify sensually aroused persons, or further, base impulses, passions.

The womanish delicacy of his lips had somehow gone, and now they protruded sensually as he sucked at a cheap cigarette.

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