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
He remembers being disturbed by the way adults around him discussed the 1973 film, with a mix of disgust and titillation, like a ghost story.
From New York Times ● Feb. 3, 2024
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
Tick′le, to touch lightly and cause to laugh: to please by slight gratification.—v.i. to feel titillation or tickling.—ns.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 4 of 4: S-Z and supplements) by Various
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