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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Origin of sexless
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Sick of disabled characters being depicted either as sexless or fetishised, she wrote BBC comedy drama How This Blind Girl.
From BBC ● Oct. 27, 2023
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
Dworkin was widely regarded as sexless and “anti-sex,” feminism’s image problem incarnate, hated by various denominations of liberals and—except when she was campaigning against pornography—conservatives alike.
From The New Yorker ● Mar. 25, 2019
Gay people aren’t sexless cherubs whose sole purpose in life is to make straight people more fabulous!
From Slate ● Sep. 17, 2018
So far as he was concerned, she might have been born in her severe, her sexless, long and shapeless habit, always black or gray.
From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin
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