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
The more delicate and poisonous the perfume of this atmosphere and the more æsthetic the refinement by which it titillates the senses, the greater is its destructive action.
From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel
