sexiness

Example Sentences

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Christina Ramberg and Martha Edelheit upend notions of sexiness in their paintings, thumbing their noses at the “male gaze.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 24, 2025

“You still have these standards of beauty and sexiness imposed on everyday women that we either don’t have the genetics or the money to achieve.”

From Los Angeles Times • May 17, 2023

De Havilland was an exemplar of radiant womanly calmness, a polar opposite to the capricious sexiness of Vivien Leigh’s bewitching belle Scarlett O’Hara.

From The Guardian • Jul. 26, 2020

The societal norms defining beauty and sexiness have been changing for years, with a greater value on a wide range of body types, skin colors and gender identities.

From New York Times • Feb. 1, 2020

Sometimes the representamen is price, which is supposed to reflect the elements listed above, as well as other pricing criteria: a trend, a product's sexiness; a buyer's gullibility, ego, or lack of economic sense.

From The Civilization of Illiteracy by Nadin, Mihai