sexed-up
Americanadjective
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sexually aroused.
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made sexually attractive or more titillating.
The movie was a sexed-up version of the book.
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made more attractive or interesting, especially by adding decorative elements.
a sexed-up car.
Example Sentences
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In this sense, just as costume dramas do today, some 19th-century novels adapted, idealised, and even sexed-up fictional fashions to suit public taste.
From Salon
Indeed, “Ice Cream,” the song with Gomez, is the most gratifyingly stylish track here: a throbbing electro-rap banger with skittering percussion and as many sexed-up double-entendres as anything this side of Cardi’s “WAP.”
From Los Angeles Times
But if Apple’s loosened-up, and sexed-up, young Emily takes things way over the top, scholars say they are here for it.
From New York Times
When Willow fell for her witch friend Tara in Season 4, it was 2000—three years after Ellen DeGeneres’ goofy coming-out on Ellen and four years before The L Word gave queer women the glamorous, sexed-up soap opera treatment.
From Slate
It featured timeless classics like “Sexed-Up Style,” “Floral Hats,” and the “Feminine Ruffle,” some of which you are still able to play on other dress-up sites that have apparently ripped the games and republished them.
From The Verge
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