soft-core

[sawft-kawr, -kohr, soft-]

adjective

of, relating to, or containing sexually arousing depictions that are not fully explicit: soft-core pornography.Compare hard-core(def 2).

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, nasty

Examples from the Web for softcore

Contemporary Examples of softcore

College girls invade Butler library to make a softcore statement on “female hysteria.”
Columbia’s Pompous Butler Library Porno
Lizzie Crocker
February 5, 2014
The cover was relatively demure given more recent issues and seemed to signal a turning point for the softcore sex magazine.
Not So Fast, ‘Playboy’: the Kate Moss Cover May Not Be a Big Turning Point
The Fashion Beast Team
December 17, 2013
Japanese adult video actresses and Hong Kong softcore starlets have been popular in China before, but never like this.
Porn Star Sora Aoi Is Taking China by Storm
Isaac Stone Fish
May 20, 2011

British Dictionary definitions for softcore

soft-core

adjective

(of pornography) suggestive and titillating through not being totally explicit or detailed

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