titillate

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

The prompts don’t titillate; they delight, educate and heal.

From New York Times ● Apr. 5, 2023

Each appearing in a set of doorways on Arnulfo Maldonado’s strikingly spare set, they’re the gateways to all of the notions that taunt, torment and titillate Usher.

From Washington Post ● Apr. 26, 2022

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

Ironically, the film mirrors the callow cinematic dynamics it critiques: It titillates, even as it scolds.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Verhoeven’s world is the exception that titillates not to challenge the rule but to sucker viewers into overlooking it, ignoring it, and dismissing it.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2016

The title Hot Feminist titillates, and the content is controversial in a bland sort of way, if you’ve never read anything about feminism except what its detractors purport that it’s about.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2015

The chemistry between these two groups isn’t always perfect, but the combination still titillates — more, at any rate, than Jeff Koons’s recently exhibited “Made in Heaven” series of the early 1990s.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011

The more delicate and poisonous the perfume of this atmosphere and the more æsthetic the refinement by which it titillates the senses, the greater is its destructive action.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

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.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Which suggests voters aren’t nearly as titillated by all that sparkle and shine as the political mentioners would like to think.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" has titillated followers of the British royal family, with eye-popping revelations about life as a royal serving as tabloid fodder for weeks now.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2023

As historian Peter Staudenmaier recently wrote in Aeon, titillated conversations about the Nazis as occult masters just make it harder to talk about the realities of fascism.

From Slate ● Aug. 24, 2017

The prosecution of Marsha Colbey eventually caught the attention of the press, which was titillated by another “dangerous mother” story.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

In fact, in the hoo-hah over the Lakers, titillating to the media on both coasts, Mr. Trump has been a non-factor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

After that, his unclaimed body began its wanderings: as a greeter for an Oklahoma funeral home, as a sideshow attraction for touring carnivals, and even in a titillating 1933 pre-Code film, “Narcotic.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 4, 2025

The latter involves computer nerds clicking away at keyboards, which isn't as cinematic and emotionally arresting as the Zapruder film or titillating stories about alien abductions.

From Salon ● Feb. 13, 2025

I acknowledge that chaos is titillating, and change can be exciting, and I understand the lure of joining an elite conference and what that can mean as far as prestige and visibility.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall