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titillating

[ tit-l-ey-ting ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

adjective

First recorded in 1670–80; titillat(e) ( def ) + -ing ²( def )

As attractive to women as it was titillating to men, this image sold product.

From Time

They either have a tendency to hyperbolize and make life much more glamorous and titillating than it is, or the other way.

Indeed--she has helped educate the world on the titillating culture of kink.

For the audience it is titillating to hear a man stand on stage saying “those words.”

Imagine that, a network television show realizing that gay sex can be hot and titillating, too.

The repetition of that became as tastelessly titillating as showing us a torn arm or a decomposing torso.

Knows he that never took a pinch, Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows, Knows he the titillating joysWhich my nose knows?

The titillating odour of this concoction came now, on the breeze, to the nostrils of Tansey, awakening in him hunger for it.

There are ten thousand agencies and instrumentalities titillating the surface, smoothing, pulverizing, and vulgarizing the top.

The mental picture of that young couple filled his whole being with a strange titillating warmth.

He had faced danger and tragedy since he could toddle, and fear had never overridden the titillating sense of adventure.

April 18, 2024petrichor

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