fetish

Example Sentences

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Mr. Armitage distinguishes himself by refusing the fetish of incompleteness.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 24, 2026

For Lopez and his friends, leather is less about fetish and more about kinship, safety and visibility, in a city where queer Latino spaces remain scarce.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 22, 2025

Instead, Fehlbaum fills the frame with his fetish for tactile objects: stopwatches, soldering irons, stacks of sandwiches, dot-matrix printers.

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 12, 2024

"Or it was chic the first time Lloyd did it, but now it just looks like a fetish for ventilation ducts."

From BBC • May 24, 2024

It was idiocy, I thought, the military bed-making fetish, but the wisdom of the advice was immediately clear.

From "Newjack: Guarding Sing Sing" by Ted Conover