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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as in interesting
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as in prurient
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Recent Examples of titillating
Janey Tracey, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
On Wednesday, the impeachment inquiry staff is set to interview its most titillating target: Hunter Biden.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 22 Feb. 2024
Jake Cole, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2025
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Verb
But maybe the most titillating moment of all is the final tennis set — a wordless showdown that feels more like an emotional undressing than a championship match.
—Janey Tracey, EW.com, 7 Feb. 2025
On Wednesday, the impeachment inquiry staff is set to interview its most titillating target: Hunter Biden.
—Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 22 Feb. 2024
Adjective
Antonioni’s critical distance from this mass display makes something of a grim parody of the Sexual Revolution, suggesting that its liberatory possibilities have been forgotten in the name of titillating distraction.
—Jake Cole, IndieWire, 18 Aug. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for titillating
Verb
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The global fashion retail scene hasn’t been easy lately, so if fresh creativity and design can help turn businesses around — even just a little — that’s already thrilling.—
Sandra Salibian,
Footwear News,
4 Sep. 2025
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That people might be falling for the Minneapolis shooter’s scribblings and raging at each other over potential motivations is likely thrilling to potential copycat killers—proof that the troll still works.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
4 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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Experts say the finding is interesting, but diet quality and other lifestyle habits may have a larger impact on bone health.—
Simon Spichak,
Health,
3 Sep. 2025
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The back and forth has been interesting.—
Kristen Baldwin September 2,
EW.com,
3 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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The year that final season aired, 2004, is possibly when television’s prurient obsession with rich people really kicked off, with the launch of shows including Desperate Housewives, Entourage, and, notably, The Apprentice.—
Sophie Gilbert,
The Atlantic,
7 June 2025
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Then it was replaced by prurient talk about a nude shot.—
Mikey O'Connell,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
Adjective
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Perhaps the most tantalizing tease of all?—
EW.com,
EW.com,
1 Sep. 2025
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Directed by Conclave’s Edward Berger and costarring Fala Chen, Alex Jennings, Adrienne Lau, Jason Tobin and Tilda Swinton, Ballad of a Small Player released a tantalizing trailer with minimal dialogue that showcases Farrell’s endlessly watchable magnetism.—
Jack Smart,
People.com,
31 Aug. 2025
Adjective
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Alix Earle posed in a sexy dress that featured racy side cutouts.—
Jackie Fields,
PEOPLE,
8 Sep. 2025
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Sizzling Performance Camilla Cabello performs in a racy lingerie look onstage at the Hordern Pavilion during her Yours, C tour stop in Sydney on Aug. 30.—
Escher Walcott,
People.com,
30 Aug. 2025
Verb
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After his electrifying major league debut last Friday, Boston Red Sox top pitching prospect Payton Tolle will get another start on Friday in Arizona against the Diamondbacks, as part of a shakeup to the starting rotation as the season moves into its final month.—
Jon Vankin,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Sep. 2025
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The result provides an opportunity to discover one of the great unsung independent films of its era, a movie filled with electrifying New York location shooting, political urgency, and sophisticated moral inquiry.—
Jim Hemphill,
IndieWire,
1 Sep. 2025
Adjective
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And the goal is to be provocative and push boundaries.—
Stephanie Sengwe,
PEOPLE,
7 Sep. 2025
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Fun, provocative and sometimes controversial, the MTV Video Music Awards stand out among other award shows.—
USA Today,
USA Today,
7 Sep. 2025
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He has been held since July on suspicion of lewd and lascivious acts on a child under 14 using force or fear in the 1997 case.—
Darrell Smith,
Sacbee.com,
26 Aug. 2025
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Claud has two convictions for indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years of age and one conviction for open and gross lewdness and lascivious behavior.—
Gayla Cawley,
Boston Herald,
16 Aug. 2025
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“Titillating.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/titillating. Accessed 10 Sep. 2025.
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