titillate
Example Sentences
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A good newspaper seeks scoops that illuminate reality and don’t merely titillate.
From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 7, 2025
There's little doubt that his mass of executive orders on day one will feature some eye-catching actions designed to titillate his base.
From BBC • Jan. 19, 2025
If they were straightforward exploitation films — explicitly meant to horrify, titillate or just in general get the adrenaline pumping — they'd be as innocuous as any other action movie created in that style.
From Salon • Sep. 20, 2019
Call "Three Billboards" moral-outrage comedy, or simply outrage porn—the movie is a feeble attempt to titillate terminally-jaded moviegoers.
From New York Times • Jan. 18, 2018
Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers.
From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey
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