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Definition of sexless in English: sexlessadjective ˈsɛksləsˈsɛksləs 1Lacking in sexual desire, activity, or attractiveness. I've no patience with pious, sexless females Example sentencesExamples - Instead, religious missionaries continue to bring boring, sexless dogma to the rest of the world, while soda pop executives continue to bring crisp, refreshing deliciousness.
- Veronica has no regard for puritanical ideologies or passively sexless females in her quest for self-realization through sexual freedom.
- She and Rebecca are fascinated by and constantly torment Josh, an apparently sexless boy who stubbornly refuses to develop an interest in either of them.
- You don't have to be drab and sexless, but color psychologists tell us that blue inspires trust.
- Gee, I hope all those explosions make up for the battalions of bland, sexless ciphers filling the screen.
- The truth is, most of us shut off the sexual part of ourselves when we engage with the world, as though somehow, we can be completely sexless in every other area of our lives, and then suddenly flick on a sexy switch when we need it.
- Helena's desire to lose her virginity belies the image of the little Elizabethan sexless virgin who doesn't really have any sexual desire.
- You do not say whether the length of the marriage is a little more than 10 years, therefore essentially chaste from early on… or the last 10 years have been sexless after some years of intimacy.
- People over 60 are expected to be sexless creatures or, at any rate, celibates.
- Pregnant women should not be treated as though they are sexless and off-limits, and certainly not all women who would use their pregnant status to entice devotees are vulnerable.
- Matthew wants to go into her room like a normal couple, but she's adamant in her regressive refusals, protecting her private sexless space, declaring that ‘no one's making love on my bed.’
- So for this assignment, I'm taking back the 10 sexless months we spent together… but not, you know, together.
- Raymond broods over the recent end of a relationship that died after ‘five sexless weeks,’ while Hannah thinks, ‘I must bring home a man.’
- The child should not be looking at the mother as a sexless hermit, because that's not a good model either.
- Instead, these characters inhabit a sexless preadolescent world where the strongest emotion seems to be mindless rage against an unseen parental figure.
- In writing my book, I wanted to make a particular argument about Moore, that she was not the demure, sexless being characterized by so many of her critics.
- Three hours later dressed in her sexless black trousers and royal blue shirt she set of for her shift in the small supermarket where she would endure the next eight hours as a cashier.
- Nicholas is so devoid of personality that he needs to sing something completely superficial and sexless next week to stop this happening again.
- If the characters are domesticated, if they never act impulsively and if they are almost sexless and sterile, then they represent no threat to the system.
- As I continued to stare at my reflection, wearing that hideous mask and contemplating my sexless future, I actually started to hate myself.
2Neither male nor female. a stylized and sexless falsetto Example sentencesExamples - This was western art's first sexless nude, a body in motion, neither female nor male, rendered as a physicist or a stop-action photographer might see it, not as a painter was expected to.
- In classical philosophy the soul was in principle sexless, and this was also true of early Christian theology, which preached the spiritual equality of the sexes.
- She wasn't female anymore, just a sexless thief.
- Attired in bronze tights and leotards, with absurdly bad wigs on their heads, the seven dancers seem simultaneously naked and sexless.
- Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
- Below them stand a group of grey figures: faceless, sexless, mutely seeking release from their agony.
Synonyms asexual, neuter, unsexed, epicene technical parthenogenetic
Derivatives adverb She does this first to sexlessly amuse herself out of her relationship drudgery and second because of her theory that women respond to women, not men. Example sentencesExamples - It was so sexlessly British it made you want to emigrate.
- The models were more outdoorsy and sensible, the clothing worn almost sexlessly.
noun She refuses to equate celibacy with sexlessness. Example sentencesExamples - It's beyond cliche now to bemoan the cold, sexlessness of the German language: the precise mathematical logic of the conjunctive, built words conspires straining out all rhythm or melody.
- Despite the almost pathological sexlessness of Bollywood films (nobody kisses in Devdas), there's still a lot of passion here, mostly in the alluring dance numbers.
- People there, we believe (and have been repeatedly told) are smarter, righter, richer (their relative sexlessness is a strange aspect of their glamour).
- Never have I felt such an extraordinary sense of estrangement and sexlessness appear in a nude portrait as it does in Self-Portrait with Patricia Preece.
Definition of sexless in US English: sexlessadjectiveˈseksləsˈsɛksləs 1Lacking in sexual desire, interest, activity, or attractiveness. I've no patience with pious, sexless females Example sentencesExamples - The truth is, most of us shut off the sexual part of ourselves when we engage with the world, as though somehow, we can be completely sexless in every other area of our lives, and then suddenly flick on a sexy switch when we need it.
- Veronica has no regard for puritanical ideologies or passively sexless females in her quest for self-realization through sexual freedom.
- Matthew wants to go into her room like a normal couple, but she's adamant in her regressive refusals, protecting her private sexless space, declaring that ‘no one's making love on my bed.’
- People over 60 are expected to be sexless creatures or, at any rate, celibates.
- So for this assignment, I'm taking back the 10 sexless months we spent together… but not, you know, together.
- She and Rebecca are fascinated by and constantly torment Josh, an apparently sexless boy who stubbornly refuses to develop an interest in either of them.
- As I continued to stare at my reflection, wearing that hideous mask and contemplating my sexless future, I actually started to hate myself.
- Nicholas is so devoid of personality that he needs to sing something completely superficial and sexless next week to stop this happening again.
- Three hours later dressed in her sexless black trousers and royal blue shirt she set of for her shift in the small supermarket where she would endure the next eight hours as a cashier.
- Gee, I hope all those explosions make up for the battalions of bland, sexless ciphers filling the screen.
- You do not say whether the length of the marriage is a little more than 10 years, therefore essentially chaste from early on… or the last 10 years have been sexless after some years of intimacy.
- Raymond broods over the recent end of a relationship that died after ‘five sexless weeks,’ while Hannah thinks, ‘I must bring home a man.’
- Helena's desire to lose her virginity belies the image of the little Elizabethan sexless virgin who doesn't really have any sexual desire.
- If the characters are domesticated, if they never act impulsively and if they are almost sexless and sterile, then they represent no threat to the system.
- In writing my book, I wanted to make a particular argument about Moore, that she was not the demure, sexless being characterized by so many of her critics.
- You don't have to be drab and sexless, but color psychologists tell us that blue inspires trust.
- Instead, religious missionaries continue to bring boring, sexless dogma to the rest of the world, while soda pop executives continue to bring crisp, refreshing deliciousness.
- Pregnant women should not be treated as though they are sexless and off-limits, and certainly not all women who would use their pregnant status to entice devotees are vulnerable.
- The child should not be looking at the mother as a sexless hermit, because that's not a good model either.
- Instead, these characters inhabit a sexless preadolescent world where the strongest emotion seems to be mindless rage against an unseen parental figure.
2Neither male nor female. the stylized and sexless falsetto Example sentencesExamples - This was western art's first sexless nude, a body in motion, neither female nor male, rendered as a physicist or a stop-action photographer might see it, not as a painter was expected to.
- She wasn't female anymore, just a sexless thief.
- Below them stand a group of grey figures: faceless, sexless, mutely seeking release from their agony.
- Attired in bronze tights and leotards, with absurdly bad wigs on their heads, the seven dancers seem simultaneously naked and sexless.
- Nomi's look suggested dangerous androgyny, a sexless scariness that drew directly from both glitzy drag and gloomy Gothic ideals.
- In classical philosophy the soul was in principle sexless, and this was also true of early Christian theology, which preached the spiritual equality of the sexes.
Synonyms asexual, neuter, unsexed, epicene |