soft-core
[sawft-kawr, -kohr, soft-]
- of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography.Compare hard-core(def 2).
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Origin of soft-core
First recorded in 1965–70
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Related Words for softcore
salacious, pornographic, vulgar, indecent, prurient, lewd, boorish, naughty, tawdry, profane, tasteless, ribald, off-color, disgusting, obscene, impolite, suggestive, crude, scatological, nastyExamples from the Web for softcore
Contemporary Examples of softcore
College girls invade Butler library to make a softcore statement on “female hysteria.”
The cover was relatively demure given more recent issues and seemed to signal a turning point for the softcore sex magazine.
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December 17, 2013
Japanese adult video actresses and Hong Kong softcore starlets have been popular in China before, but never like this.
soft-core
- (of pornography) suggestive and titillating through not being totally explicit or detailed
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