nonerotic

adjective

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  1. unerotic
  2. polite
  3. unsexy
  4. proper
Adjective
  • The director Ninja Thyberg’s new film is graphic yet deeply unerotic.
    — David Sims, The Atlantic, 19 May 2022
  • Holbein was sensitive but cautiously unerotic in picturing women, who are usually sombre.
    — Peter Schjeldahl, The New Yorker, 21 Feb. 2022
Definition of unerotic
Adjective
  • Internal data as a moat is a polite way of locking yourself in.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 29 Oct. 2026
  • Louella’s prose was brief, polite, and devastatingly coded; her readers learned to interpret her tone as carefully as her text.
    — Jim Hemphill, IndieWire, 27 Oct. 2026
Definition of polite
Adjective
  • Brand cohesion, data hygiene, governance and integration are the unsexy infrastructure that rarely makes headlines.
    — Chris Koehler, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • The Love Hypothesis Rated R for language, brief nudity and painfully unsexy dialogue.
    — Chris Azzopardi, New York Times, 23 Sep. 2026
Definition of unsexy
Adjective
  • Any function whose work can be pointed at a proper model of its underlying business, instead of at a general-purpose language model, is starting to compound the same way Anthropic’s engineering did a year ago.
    — Stephen Messer, Fortune, 23 Oct. 2026
  • Pentecostal parents Ruth and Marius were accused of domestic violence, with worldwide protests criticizing what dissenters called harsh and hasty steps taken by Norwegian social workers without proper evidence.
    — Tomris Laffly, Time, 23 Oct. 2026
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“Nonerotic.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/nonerotic. Accessed 5 Nov. 2026.

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