sexy
adjective
concerned predominantly or excessively with sex; risqué.
sexiness
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a word derived from
sexy.
Example Sentences
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Christina Ramberg and Martha Edelheit upend notions of sexiness in their paintings, thumbing their noses at the “male gaze.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 24, 2025
Streisand’s boundlessness, her capaciousness — the lack of precedent for her whole-enchilada ambitions, the daffiness, the sexiness, the talent, orchestration, passion, originality; her persistence and indefatigability; the outfits; the hair — were a watershed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 7, 2023
The costumes by Constance Hoffman and video projections riff on the glitz, but not the sexiness, of the Cecil B. DeMille’s 1934 “Cleopatra.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 16, 2022
De Havilland was an exemplar of radiant womanly calmness, a polar opposite to the capricious sexiness of Vivien Leigh’s bewitching belle Scarlett O’Hara.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 26, 2020
Sometimes the representamen is price, which is supposed to reflect the elements listed above, as well as other pricing criteria: a trend, a product's sexiness; a buyer's gullibility, ego, or lack of economic sense.
From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Mihai Nadin
