sexed-up

[ sekst-uhp ]

adjective

, Informal.

1. sexually aroused.
2. made sexually attractive or more titillating:

   The movie was a sexed-up version of the book.

3. made more attractive or interesting, especially by adding decorative elements:

   a sexed-up car.

Example Sentences

Carpenter’s new album, “Short N’ Sweet,” which is tracking to secure the singer’s first No. 1 album on the Billboard charts, shows us that similar tongue-in-cheek wit with its raunchy, sexed-up lyrics.

From Salon

People have accused the "Woman's World" music video of using the male gaze because Perry and a cast of women are dressed as sexed-up construction workers before an anvil kills her.

From Salon

“Levii’s Jeans” — all these double i’s are evidently meant to reinforce “Cowboy Carter’s” Act II status — is a sexed-up duet with her and Malone trading cheeky lines about the charms of hip-hugging denim; “Riiverdance” blends programmed beats and a speedy finger-picked guitar lick like nothing since Rednex scored a left-field hit with “Cotton Eye Joe” in 1995.

From Los Angeles Times

I’ve never much gone for the sexed-up verbiage we impose upon non-alcoholic drinks.

From Salon

That film, which starred Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie, was a stylized, sexed-up spy story, in which newlyweds discover that each is an operative assigned to assassinate the other.

From New York Times