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Recent Examples of oversexed Elvis balked about recording the oversexed song. Kim Willis, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025 Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate. Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025 Carpenter, too, somehow seems both sexless and oversexed. Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025 In the film, Earth’s rocky next-door neighbor is in a bit of a crisis: After a literal battle of the sexes, Martian men are dying out, leaving the domineering and oversexed Martian women in a terrible state. Literary Hub, 19 Aug. 2025 Angela is a bad mother who is oversexed and spoiled by her new husband. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024 Wentworth plays a loving yet oversexed, no-filter mom; infusing the character with her signature candor and admits to aspiring to make her onscreen daughter as uncomfortable as possible for the sake of comedy. Xian Horn, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 The show, a Ryan Murphy production, lasted only two seasons, but Powell’s performance as an oversexed college student turned heads. Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 June 2024 Embedded in the dangerous, oversexed bad boy rock ‘n roll package is an irrepressible sense of humor that feels like Idol is making fun of himself over anyone else. Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Dec. 2023
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversexed
Adjective
  • As his star has risen, the performer born Benito Antonio Martínez Ocasio has become the most passionate and effective ambassador in Puerto Rican history.
    Leila Cobo, Billboard, 1 Oct. 2025
  • Stay open to rapid communication, travel opportunities, or passionate connections.
    Meghan Rose, Glamour, 1 Oct. 2025
Adjective
  • And if blue isn’t your style, the Resurgence belt bag is also on sale in hot pink for 14 percent off.
    Merrell Readman, Travel + Leisure, 27 Sep. 2025
  • Or, better yet, at the uber-hot, gods-only party taking place at the Acropolis.
    David Lyman, Cincinnati Enquirer, 27 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Goggins, with many shirt buttons undone, is a libidinous waiter who takes his flirting with the mothers to extremes.
    Omar L. Gallaga, Los Angeles Times, 11 May 2025
  • Their libidinous preoccupations, like those of the protagonists of Superbad, Booksmart and more recently Bottoms, are familiar.
    Lovia Gyarkye, HollywoodReporter, 3 Apr. 2025
Adjective
  • This is going to be a very horny, very sumptuous, and possibly indeed demented movie, apparently featuring a fair amount of finger sucking and BDSM: Of course, despite its reputation (?), Wuthering Heights (1847) is a deeply unsexy book.
    Emily Temple September 5, Literary Hub, 5 Sep. 2025
  • This Mary is horny, drunk, and completely belligerent about her dream of being a cabaret star.
    CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 2 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • There is nothing quite so sluttish, apparently, as a lustful pistil.
    Stephanie Bunbury, Deadline, 5 Sep. 2025
  • He’s got a strong, if not particularly nuanced, voice that served him well over the lustful screams from the audience, which was heavy on young women and families.
    Ross Raihala, Twin Cities, 23 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • Among those arrested was Walther Ramiro Hernandez-Ortiz, an 18-year-old from Honduras, who faces charges including lewd and lascivious behavior, battery, and molestation of a victim under 12 years old, according to ICE.
    Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
  • The Los Angeles Times reported in 1992 that Brimmer was charged with three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior with minor boys between the ages of 9 and 15 while serving as a pastor at the Jubilee Christian Center.
    Chris Spargo, PEOPLE, 25 Sep. 2025
Adjective
  • Arriving in January, the California Post will be Murdoch’s transplant of his right-leaning tabloid the New York Post, replete with shrill headlines and randy gossip.
    Peter Bart, Deadline, 11 Sep. 2025
  • Meanwhile, Bull winds up in an unintended liaison with the randy Molasses (Michelle Buteau), which proves unfortunate when Honey unexpectedly bursts in on them.
    Frank Scheck, HollywoodReporter, 6 Aug. 2025
Adjective
  • They have been denounced as lecherous predators and as omnipotent conspirators, as arch-Bolsheviks and arch-capitalists.
    Ian Buruma, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • Although all signs point to the woman's lecherous boss as her kidnapper, Morgan is convinced the Game Maker is ultimately behind the crime.
    Kelly Lawler, USA Today, 17 Sep. 2025

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“Oversexed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversexed. Accessed 2 Oct. 2025.

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