titillate

It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.

But Hindemith’s “Sancta Susanna,” with its startling love affair between a nun and her maid servant, titillated German audiences at the start of the roaring twenties, and still can.

A good newspaper seeks scoops that illuminate reality and don’t merely titillate.

But I’ve always felt a little titillated by the newness, even the dislocation,” she says.

The judge said that Williams had used her position as a primary school teacher to "titillate" Surtees.