titillation
Example Sentences
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These patchwork visions have a restrained, contemplative air that carefully weighs the seriousness of their themes without ever dipping into melodrama or titillation.
From The Wall Street Journal • Feb. 26, 2026
The great Argento films were never just about titillation and blood-spatter.
From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 14, 2022
Calaway is determined, too, to avoid cashing in as a gimmick, wheeled out as a past-his-prime spectacle for the titillation of crowds.
From The Guardian • Nov. 23, 2020
When he shaved his signature mustache in 2001 — “on a whim,” he said — his viewership erupted in titillation.
From Washington Post • Nov. 8, 2020
And it were a sin of obstinacy, high and horrible obstinacy, to resist the titillation of the famelic sense which is smell.
From The Gentle Reader by Crothers, Samuel McChord
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