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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
- There's no voyeuristic, titillating side to the film.
- The momentum derives not from a lulling flow or titillating suspense but from astoundingly acrobatic leaps from perch to perch.
- * the great Colossus POV as it spies on Forbin, especially in the more titillating sections and all of that visual flamboyance is coupled with the magnificently chilling audio centerpiece: the Voice of Colossus and its horrifying implacable tone. Show #29: Pre-show Discussion : The Kick-Ass Mystic Ninjas
- It is this that lends her mildly titillating fiction the veneer of importance.
- I've refreshed my memory over the past couple of days and, strewth, how spectacularly untitillating can you get? Times, Sunday Times
- As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here.
- By the time that same child is 18 years old, approximately 40,000 sexually titillating scenes will have been viewed.
- In past albums the titillating message was overshadowed by a bouncy, girlish beat and image.
- We thrive on the superficial barb, and shrink from the deeper, more complex, less titillating ambiguities of an issue.