titillating

[ tit-l-ey-ting ]

adjective

Origin of titillating

First recorded in 1670–80; titillat(e) + -ing²

As attractive to women as it was titillating to men, this image sold product.
From Britney to Buffy, We're Suddenly Rethinking Postfeminist Pop Culture—and Nothing Could Be Healthier | Judy Berman | March 2, 2021 | Time
They either have a tendency to hyperbolize and make life much more glamorous and titillating than it is, or the other way.
Coffee Talk with Ethan Hawke: On ‘Boyhood,’ Jennifer Lawrence, and Bill Clinton’s Urinal Exchange | Marlow Stern | December 27, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Indeed--she has helped educate the world on the titillating culture of kink.
Whip It: Secrets of a Dominatrix | Justin Jones | November 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
For the audience it is titillating to hear a man stand on stage saying “those words.”
Why George Carlin Deserves His Own Street | Kevin Bartini | October 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Imagine that, a network television show realizing that gay sex can be hot and titillating, too.
How to Get Away With Gayness: Shonda Rhimes Kills TV’s Sex Stereotypes | Kevin Fallon | September 25, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST

The repetition of that became as tastelessly titillating as showing us a torn arm or a decomposing torso.
To Truly Shame Putin, Show Us the Bodies of MH17 | Tim Teeman | July 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEAST
Knows he that never took a pinch, Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows, Knows he the titillating joysWhich my nose knows?
The Book of Humorous Verse | Various
The titillating odour of this concoction came now, on the breeze, to the nostrils of Tansey, awakening in him hunger for it.
Roads of Destiny | O. Henry
There are ten thousand agencies and instrumentalities titillating the surface, smoothing, pulverizing, and vulgarizing the top.
Fresh Fields | John Burroughs
The mental picture of that young couple filled his whole being with a strange titillating warmth.
The Cottage of Delight | Will N. Harben
He had faced danger and tragedy since he could toddle, and fear had never overridden the titillating sense of adventure.
Cow-Country | B. M. Bower

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