titillation
Example Sentences
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These patchwork visions have a restrained, contemplative air that carefully weighs the seriousness of their themes without ever dipping into melodrama or titillation.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 26, 2026
Calaway is determined, too, to avoid cashing in as a gimmick, wheeled out as a past-his-prime spectacle for the titillation of crowds.
From The Guardian ● Nov. 23, 2020
When he shaved his signature mustache in 2001 — “on a whim,” he said — his viewership erupted in titillation.
From Washington Post ● Nov. 8, 2020
Lately, however, Howard’s bare-knuckled methods drew more than titillation and newsstand sales.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 22, 2020
It was no shock, but rather a piquant titillation of my bitter humour, when I disentangled from Wetter's confident and eloquent description of the Ideal Ambassador a tolerably accurate, if somewhat partial, portrait of himself.
From The King's Mirror by Anthony Hope
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