titillate
verb (used with object)
to excite or arouse agreeably, often in a sexually suggestive way.
titillates
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present tense formof titillate (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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Ironically, the film mirrors the callow cinematic dynamics it critiques: It titillates, even as it scolds.
From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023
Verhoeven’s world is the exception that titillates not to challenge the rule but to sucker viewers into overlooking it, ignoring it, and dismissing it.
From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2016
The title Hot Feminist titillates, and the content is controversial in a bland sort of way, if you’ve never read anything about feminism except what its detractors purport that it’s about.
From The Guardian ● May 20, 2015
The chemistry between these two groups isn’t always perfect, but the combination still titillates — more, at any rate, than Jeff Koons’s recently exhibited “Made in Heaven” series of the early 1990s.
From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011
It would kill us to drink Cologne water, but the perfume titillates the sense, and so we sprinkle it upon our handkerchiefs.
From Lessons in Life A Series of Familiar Essays by Timothy Titcomb
