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Definition of erotic
1 : of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire erotic art
2 : strongly marked or affected by sexual desire
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Examples of erotic in a Sentence
the erotic aspects of the story of Beauty and the Beast
Recent Examples of erotic from the Web
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Roughly 95 percent of the perfume imagery that crosses my desk features a woman or a couple in some sort of erotic situation, and far too many perfume ads wrongly perpetuate the idea that having sex on the sand is a good idea.
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Scripted by Zoe King (whose late father, Zalman King, was an expert at this sort of B-movie erotic thriller), Inconceivable lurches from one laughably predictable, awkward moment to the next.
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Not Okay with people saying that erotic or gay romance fanfic was something to be ashamed of.
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Ibsen's plays plumbed women's inner lives before the movies made worldwide stars of Greta Garbo and Ingrid Bergman, and portrayed Scandinavian women as beautiful, erotic, emotional and enigmatic.
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Though some snooty critics have long dismissed the artist, Jean-Léon Gérôme, and his exquisite, intensely erotic late 19th-century canvas, the sale set a record price for the painter.
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Looks like the usual monster mash-up of gothic and erotic.
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For amorous couples looking to take it up a notch, check into the erotic suite at the 9Hotel Montparnasse.
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Few of us want to actually receive an erotic massage — the thought actually makes my skin crawl.
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Origin and Etymology of erotic
Greek erōtikos, from erōt-, erōs
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EROTIC Defined for English Language Learners
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playDefinition of erotic for English Language Learners
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: relating to sex : causing sexual feelings
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