sex-starved
Britishadjective
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Place two young, attractive female backpackers in a forlorn mining town somewhere in the Australian Outback; surround them with sex-starved, boorish miners; allow them no access to cell service or reliable transport.
From New York Times
People mostly appreciate her efforts, but a few are hostile to the cats, especially in late spring, the height of breeding season, when unfixed and sex-starved beasts yowl and fight over mates.
From New York Times
Vogel, the songwriter, describes the group as “well-read, gifted, currently dangerously sex-starved, deeply compassionate nut jobs. We are working round the clock to keep one another entertained, inspired, fed and virus-free.”
From Los Angeles Times
Based, like “Fleabag,” on its star’s one-woman play, Michaela Coel’s sitcom about a sex-starved minister’s daughter in a London housing project is that show’s more raucous, more joyful, more colorful and screamingly funny cousin.
From New York Times
Nadia Bokody, who is from Australia, posted a YouTube video on Monday to help husbands navigate their “sex-starved” relationships by giving them the tools they need to get their wives’ sex drive back on track.
From Fox News
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