anaphrodisiac

ADJECTIVE
  1. tending to diminish sexual desire
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How To Use anaphrodisiac In A Sentence

  • For more than a decade, reviewers have been wearied by Raine's schoolboyish anal-fixation, which continues unimpeded, supplying a rush of anaphrodisiac prose. Heartbreak by Craig Raine
  • The Greeks and Romans also thought it was anaphrodisiac.
  • There is something anaphrodisiac about having a shelf full of someone's complete works from the library, I got a lot of A. L. Kennedy on that same trip and though I absolutely loved her novel Paradise having all her books sitting there (and they're short-story collections mostly, so not so much my cup of tea) left me unmoved to take up and read (Augustine!) The grammar of skyscrapers and pavement
  • The use of bromide (it has anaphrodisiac properties - opposite to aphrodisiac) was / is commonly used to keep troops at a low libido so they don't need to show off their masculinity and start fighting one another.
  • Folk use suggests that it is an anaphrodisiac for men.
  • Most people don't know what it is, but would have no trouble identifying an example of an anaphrodisiac.
  • Here it stems from a yapping poodle that acts as a crucial anaphrodisiac and which, even in death, shows an astonishing capacity to nip ankles. Once Bitten – review
  • The herb is anaphrodisiac - which means it reduces sexual desire, particularly if it is pathological.
  • Camphor has an ancient reputation as an anaphrodisiac, and its use in this respect was known to the Arabs Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
  • Charcot, indeed, it is said, used to declare that the only anaphrodisiac in which he had any confidence was that used by the uncle of Heloïse in the case of Abelard. Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 5 Erotic Symbolism; The Mechanism of Detumescence; The Psychic State in Pregnancy
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