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as in interesting
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as in prurient
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as in thrilling
to cause a pleasurable stimulation of the feelings
tabloids titillate their readers with racy details about the private lives of media-created celebrities
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Recent Examples of titillating
Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
The titillating moment got an audible reaction from women in our theater audience.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
11 Mar. 2026
Trump’s frenetic social media activity is also aimed more at titillating his hardcore online supporters (and, again, amusing himself) than persuading swing voters.
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W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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Adjective
This week, Kacey Musgraves is feeling frisky on a titillating new single, James Blake stretches time and space on the orchestral closer of his first independent record, and Kim Gordon fuses trap and grunge on a Play Me standout.
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Rolling Stone,
13 Mar. 2026
The titillating moment got an audible reaction from women in our theater audience.
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Patrick Ryan,
USA Today,
11 Feb. 2026
Verb
Bracketed by a song about ICE disappearing US citizens and another song with a visceral description of torture, this erotic vision of national unity is more than simply titillating.
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Stephen M. Deusner,
Pitchfork,
11 Mar. 2026
Trump’s frenetic social media activity is also aimed more at titillating his hardcore online supporters (and, again, amusing himself) than persuading swing voters.
—
W. James Antle Iii,
The Washington Examiner,
6 Feb. 2026
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titillating
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That could perhaps create more pressure for Burrows to have a strong outing Tuesday, or create an interesting conversation around Arrighetti.
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Well, its’ interesting because for many years the Republican Party revered Reagan much more than Nixon, partly because Reagan was a successful president and Nixon, of course, ended his presidency in disgrace.
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What if the creature from John Carpenter’s The Thing had a prurient interest in one of the researchers?
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If minors are sent nude or otherwise prurient photos, the images are blurred.
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But the Knicks came all the way back, finally winning it on OG’s thrilling putback, ending the greatest comeback the NBA Finals had ever seen.
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The match, despite the torrential rain, was thrilling and ranks alongside 2022 as the greatest of World Cup finals.
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However, Buffalo is the most tantalizing landing spot for Hellebuyck.
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Ament is a tantalizing prospect.
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In racy photos posted by Kardashian, the longtime Kardashian-Jenner family friend is seen toned and tanned, her hair messy.
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That reclassification, from racy growth stock to utility-like bedrock, is doing quiet work across the whole AI debt story.
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Major Wilson, 17, has been around horses most of his life and now spends much of his time helping younger riders get ready, showing them how to saddle their horses without exciting them.
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For Harrington and her husband Dante, the thought of triplets was shocking but exciting all the same.
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Great marketing is often provocative.
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The move was widely seen as deliberately provocative and triggered rioting across Jerusalem’s Old City.
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Some artists have eras, experimental phases, detours, creative dalliances; Arthur Russell’s career, for all its seeming contradictions—classical minimalism and lascivious disco, Zen Buddhist mantras and winsome country pop—was a continuum.
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On Thursday, Riemer pleaded guilty to two counts of lewd or lascivious exhibition.
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“Titillating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titillating. Accessed 30 Jun. 2026.
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