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/tˈɪtɪlˌeɪtɪŋ/
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[ US /ˈtɪtəˌɫeɪtɪŋ/ ]
[ US /ˈtɪtəˌɫeɪtɪŋ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
- giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing
- pleasantly and superficially exciting
- exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements
How To Use titillating In A Sentence
- In 11 volumes published between 1888 and 1894, and many years later widely published in a condensed edition, the narrator's adventures in the London demimonde are narrated in such detail as ultimately to become tiresome rather than titillating. Deborah Lutz's "Pleasure Bound," on Victorian sex rebels
- Considering how opposed many conservative Christians are even to soft-core pornography (at least publicly!), I find it hard to fathom how a soi-disant conservative Christian can legitimately justify posing for titillating photographs with the goal of material and professional gain in mind — and especially not while technically still a minor (Prejean was not yet eighteen when she chose to pose for the topless photographs). Think Progress » Miss Beverly Hills tries to one-up Carrie Prejean, says it’s divine law that gays be put to death.
- The blurb makes it all sound far more titillating than it probably is, but they're right about the leather and amyl though.
- In one of the book's most titillating revelations, she writes about engaging in sexual threesomes.
- The titillating details that have emerged about their four-month fling have also made the story irresistible.
- This is character-driven film noir, where the violence serves a higher purpose than shocking or titillating an audience.
- No matter how silly the questions, the poor victim must remain charming and keep repeating titillating soundbites, without ever actually being injudicious or displeasing the capricious movie-going masses.
- It's not an erotic, titillating scene, nor is it meant to be.
- But keep in mind that there's a school of thought that says they shouldn't exist at all, and I would think that would be in its way even "creepier," or at least scarier, than any titillating displays. Comic shops and topless Nazi women
- I don't object to titillating your readers, but what about balance?