pornographic

[pawr-nuh-graf-ik]

adjective

1. of, relating to, or reminiscent of sexually explicit material, such as video, audio, text, or images, whose purpose is to elicit sexual arousal.

Word History and Origins

Origin of pornographic¹

First recorded in 1850–55; pornograph(y) ( def. ) + -ic ( def. )

Example Sentences

Discord has previously strengthened its age-verification measures in response to concerns that some servers on the platform were being used to distribute pornographic and extremist material.

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The court prosecutor's office told news agency AFP that the flight crew had raised the alarm after they spotted Kageyama looking at the pornographic images on the plane.

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Officers also found he made 307 category B indecent images of children, 158 category C indecent images of children, possessed six extreme pornographic images of animals, and five prohibited images of children.

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Rodriguez is accused of touching two female inmates over their clothes and showing them pornographic videos while he worked and they were incarcerated at Theo Lacy maximum security jail complex in Orange.

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Ms Gómez had alleged that the closure of her account had affected her ability to work and had been influenced by her pornographic work beyond the platform.

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Related Words

• adult 
• erotic 
• indecent 
• lewd 
• obscene 
• salacious 
• sexy