sexless
Americanadjective
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having or seeming to have no sex; neuter.
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having or seeming to have no sexual desires.
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having no sex appeal; sexually uninteresting.
adjective
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having or showing no sexual differentiation
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having no sexual desires
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sexually unattractive
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The character followed a tradition of popular drag acts, but O'Grady said he wanted to stand out from the "matronly and sexless" figures who had come before, like Dame Edna Everage and Hinge and Bracket.
From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023
After a pivot away from Smokey in the 2000s, the Ad Council released a sexless 2019 animoji campaign for the bear’s 75th birthday, making him the longest-running public service announcement in our nation’s history.
From Slate • Dec. 14, 2020
In other words, like many stars, it's easy to project all kinds of fantasy scenarios on Rudd, all of them childishly innocent and sexless and, if we're lucky, include him dancing awkwardly.
From Salon • Oct. 19, 2019
Such rigidly sexless people, Mailer says, were locked into their belief in an American infallibility blessed by God, and they couldn’t begin to question the war.
From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2018
Perhaps the best- known subject is a man or boy gingerly holding a “were-jaguar”: a limp, fat, sexless baby with a flattened nose and a snarling jaguar mouth.
From "1491" by Charles C. Mann
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