masturbatory

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Recent Examples of masturbatory More than masturbatory daydreams, Vladimir inspires our heroine to write with abandon, ignoring professional and personal obligations in service to her muse. Alison Herman, Variety, 5 Mar. 2026 Judging by trophy videos posted to Reddit, most users are training Ani to assist them in baroque masturbatory fantasies. Hari Kunzru, Artforum, 1 Dec. 2025 Bardo for being masturbatory and self-pitying, Empire of Light for being shallow and unfocused. Vulture, 24 Jan. 2023 Strickland, responding to a question from Tolley about the oddest thing he’d been asked to endorse, recalls being approached by the manufacturer of a masturbatory aid. Ian Parker, The New Yorker, 7 Nov. 2022 And this use was a selling point, not a secret, during an era of anti-masturbatory rhetoric. Kim Adams, Discover Magazine, 30 June 2020
Recent Examples of Synonyms for masturbatory
Adjective
  • Likewise, the intensely retrograde gender politics—and the text’s out-of-control, onanistic eroticism—seem fairly personal and specific.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 17 Dec. 2025
Adjective
  • Creative flow grows as sensual Venus moves through your 5th House of Creativity, while imaginative Neptune contrasts from your 11th House of Friends and Aspirations.
    Tarot.com, Baltimore Sun, 10 Aug. 2026
  • That exchange starts an open question of power between the two, and their sensual fried-chicken dinner is the first round of the negotiation.
    JP Mangalindan, Time, 10 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • The Bugatti Type 57 epitomizes that aesthetic power, exemplified by a low-slung body defined by voluptuous curves.
    Viju Mathew, Robb Report, 17 Aug. 2026
  • Novelist, musician, and filmmaker Eliza Barry Callahan turns genre on its ear, with voluptuous nocturnal celluloid cinematography by Alfonso Herrera Salcedo.
    Jill Goldsmith, Deadline, 11 Aug. 2026
Adjective
  • In our natural state, the sensuous and formal drives conflict with each other.
    The Editors, JSTOR Daily, 5 Aug. 2026
  • The interplay between straight lines and sensuous curves is there, too.
    Condé Nast, Condé Nast Traveler, 28 July 2026
Adjective
  • The Lacobs were ultimately too risk-averse, too cautious, and too self-absorbed to build anything of worth without their former general manager.
    Dieter Kurtenbach, Mercury News, 24 July 2026
  • Life in the middle, utterly self-absorbed.
    Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 June 2026

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“Masturbatory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/masturbatory. Accessed 19 Aug. 2026.

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