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US
/ˈtɪtəˌɫeɪt/
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[ UK /tˈɪtɪlˌeɪt/ ]
[ UK /tˈɪtɪlˌeɪt/ ]
VERB
-
excite pleasurably or erotically
A titillating story appeared in the usually conservative magazine - touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
How To Use titillate In A Sentence
- I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
- Context is everything, so we should probably note that Christina Ricci wore the dress at right to an event honoring performance artist Marina Abramovic's MOMA exhibit, in which the artist spent the past several days -- possibly catheterized -- sitting stock still in a chair while her naked underlings elsewhere in the museum did their best to shock and awe titillated visitors. Fashion Statement: Hanging out with Christina Ricci
- I will not let you turn yourself into a governessing drudge, nor an eccentric to titillate the ton. DEVIL'S BRIDE
- This ritualistic preparation is not shown to titillate the viewer.
- While I'm all for being titillated, that is not a sport. NPR Topics: News
- It's just the ones who want to scream it in the streets and have their base instincts publicly titillated I wish to avoid, and should be able to.
- They also like to pretend they're lesbian lovers, but that's not meant to titillate consumers.
- (Even when I was a high school student I might have been titillated by them in the usual adolescent manner, but I wouldn't have been horrified or unduly influenced by them.) Literary Study
- Flimsy storylines concentrate on chaste boy-girl relationships, with hip-grinding dance numbers providing enough sex to titillate the audience without upsetting India's puritanical film censors.
- They tut-tutted about the radical and fringe political discussions out in the wilds of the online world, without a thought in their heads for how many times they have invited fringe people on their own screens, and then egged them on to say ever-more-outrageous things to titillate the public and sell more ads. Chris Weigant: Friday Talking Points [151] -- Obama's Speech