priapic
adjective
pri·a·pic
prī-ˈā-pik 
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1
: phallic
2
: relating to or preoccupied with virility or male sexual excitement
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Stylistically, the book becomes a motley, contaminated thing, a mix of Crews’s many modes—chatty, terse, demotic, detached, priapic, noirish, gnomic.
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Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Rupert, arrogant, priapic to a fault, and vulnerable underneath the machismo is—somehow!—hard not to root for, if only because everyone who hates him is so much worse.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
For a teenage Cohen, the guitar never took on the priapic mystique invested in it by Elvis, or Chuck Berry, or Duane Eddy.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
Lovers of priapic yachts, tax avoidance and other Monagesque pursuits would certainly be tempted, as views of the principality from the hotel’s perch above the Monte Carlo crush are second to none.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2023
Thus Will delves into an earlier period of gay life, one in which secrecy often acted as an aphrodisiac, via Charles’s diaries detailing his priapic days as a student at Winchester College and then Oxford, as a government official in Sudan and beyond.
—June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
Bane the sadsack, Bane the priapic colossus.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
Lingas are stone fertility symbols representing the god Shiva, carved in the form of priapic domes.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
Who, apart from the most puritanical and earnest among us, isn’t gripped by the dalliances of an older, powerful, priapic man and a younger, attractive, highly ambitious woman?
—Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
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Charlie Lee, Harpers Magazine, 18 June 2025
Rupert, arrogant, priapic to a fault, and vulnerable underneath the machismo is—somehow!—hard not to root for, if only because everyone who hates him is so much worse.
—Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 1 Nov. 2024
For a teenage Cohen, the guitar never took on the priapic mystique invested in it by Elvis, or Chuck Berry, or Duane Eddy.
—Stephen Metcalf, The Atlantic, 17 Sep. 2024
Lovers of priapic yachts, tax avoidance and other Monagesque pursuits would certainly be tempted, as views of the principality from the hotel’s perch above the Monte Carlo crush are second to none.
—Lucy Alexander, Robb Report, 14 Dec. 2023
Thus Will delves into an earlier period of gay life, one in which secrecy often acted as an aphrodisiac, via Charles’s diaries detailing his priapic days as a student at Winchester College and then Oxford, as a government official in Sudan and beyond.
—June Thomas, New York Times, 16 June 2023
Bane the sadsack, Bane the priapic colossus.
—Darren Franich, EW.com, 6 Feb. 2023
Lingas are stone fertility symbols representing the god Shiva, carved in the form of priapic domes.
—Simon Willis, Travel + Leisure, 21 Feb. 2023
Who, apart from the most puritanical and earnest among us, isn’t gripped by the dalliances of an older, powerful, priapic man and a younger, attractive, highly ambitious woman?
—Lara Prendergast, Harper's Magazine, 26 Oct. 2021
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“Priapic.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/priapic. Accessed 15 Jul. 2025.
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