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单词 titillating
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Definition of titillating in English:

titillating

adjective ˈtɪtɪleɪtɪŋˈtɪdlˌeɪdɪŋ
  • Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious.

    she let slip titillating details about her clients
    then came a lot of titillating tabloid speculation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • While never titillating or exploitive, the love shared between Lana and Brandon is honest and very moving.
    • In one of the book's most titillating revelations, she writes about engaging in sexual threesomes.
    • It is this that lends her mildly titillating fiction the veneer of importance.
    • In past albums the titillating message was overshadowed by a bouncy, girlish beat and image.
    • Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities.
    • The titillating subject brought the crowds in, no doubt, but the film is not really salacious.
    • I had heard strange, titillating details about Morrison's life, and wanted to voyeuristically experience them.
    • It's not an erotic, titillating scene, nor is it meant to be.
    • Wrapped around the chat-show elements are snippets of supposedly adult education programmes and gratuitous shots of semi-nude women in titillating situations.
    • 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.
    • And users, many of whom are quick to express concerns about the porn on the net, aren't very forthcoming when you ask whether they're looking at titillating images.
    • What makes the movie intriguing (and worthy of this DVD series) is the love story, which is both titillating and sweet in spite of its inherent impropriety.
    • The titillating details that have emerged about their four-month fling have also made the story irresistible.
    • And everyone seems ever more determined to expose themselves, transforming titillating tales into their fifteen minutes of TV-chatter fame.
    • Yet there is more here than just titillating visuals.
    • This is certainly the message that comes through in the titillating images of women as both vamp and virgin that dominate our film and television media.
    • There's no voyeuristic, titillating side to the film.
    • What is gained in the new photographs is something more titillating, however - a representation of love that transcends the physical and leaves more to the imagination.
    • Whilst some may find this titillating we cannot but regard it with abhorrence.
    Synonyms
    sexually arousing, sexually exciting, sexually stimulating, provocative, salacious, lurid, sexy, sensual, erotic, pornographic

Derivatives

  • titillatingly

  • adverb
    • I am the first to admit that Oshima Nagisa's Gohatto (1999, more literally ‘Against the Law,’ but titillatingly translated for international showings as ‘Taboo’) is a visually beautiful film.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • Or they were collected and retold in such a way as to be more acceptable (though still titillatingly risqué and scandalous) for a non-Native audience.
      • People like Peter Williamson, twice captured by American Indians in the 1750s, and Elizabeth Marsh who, seized by Moroccan corsairs, later wrote titillatingly of her encounter with an elegant Moroccan Prince.
      • The bustier of their cocktail dress unravels dangerously, titillatingly close to the Muslim, Jewish and Christian religious symbols woven into it.
 
 

Definition of titillating in US English:

titillating

adjectiveˈtɪdlˌeɪdɪŋˈtidlˌādiNG
  • Arousing mild sexual excitement or interest; salacious.

    she let slip titillating details about her clients
    then came a lot of titillating tabloid speculation
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Yet there is more here than just titillating visuals.
    • There's no voyeuristic, titillating side to the film.
    • What is gained in the new photographs is something more titillating, however - a representation of love that transcends the physical and leaves more to the imagination.
    • Wrapped around the chat-show elements are snippets of supposedly adult education programmes and gratuitous shots of semi-nude women in titillating situations.
    • What makes the movie intriguing (and worthy of this DVD series) is the love story, which is both titillating and sweet in spite of its inherent impropriety.
    • The titillating details that have emerged about their four-month fling have also made the story irresistible.
    • In past albums the titillating message was overshadowed by a bouncy, girlish beat and image.
    • I had heard strange, titillating details about Morrison's life, and wanted to voyeuristically experience them.
    • By the time that same child is 18 years old, approximately 40,000 sexually titillating scenes will have been viewed.
    • The titillating subject brought the crowds in, no doubt, but the film is not really salacious.
    • It's not an erotic, titillating scene, nor is it meant to be.
    • And users, many of whom are quick to express concerns about the porn on the net, aren't very forthcoming when you ask whether they're looking at titillating images.
    • Whilst some may find this titillating we cannot but regard it with abhorrence.
    • And everyone seems ever more determined to expose themselves, transforming titillating tales into their fifteen minutes of TV-chatter fame.
    • Sure, crass commercialism has pushed the mainstream media into an obsession with titillating stories about celebrities.
    • It is this that lends her mildly titillating fiction the veneer of importance.
    • While never titillating or exploitive, the love shared between Lana and Brandon is honest and very moving.
    • This is certainly the message that comes through in the titillating images of women as both vamp and virgin that dominate our film and television media.
    • In one of the book's most titillating revelations, she writes about engaging in sexual threesomes.
    • As for the film being racy, raunchy or titillating, there's utterly nothing groundbreaking here.
    Synonyms
    sexually arousing, sexually exciting, sexually stimulating, provocative, salacious, lurid, sexy, sensual, erotic, pornographic
 
 
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