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

A work of glaring artifice, “Miller’s Girl,” written and directed by Jade Halley Bartlett, is being touted as a psychological thriller, but it’s too vapid and silly to do much besides titillate.

From New York Times • Jan. 25, 2024

Instead of disseminating useful information and debating important ideas, the internet is too often used to promote whacky theories and titillate users with inane gossip.

From Salon • Apr. 22, 2023

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