Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Tending to titillate or tickle.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Tending or serving to titillate, or tickle; tickling.

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  • adjective titillating

Etymologies

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titillate +‎ -ive

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Examples

  • In this game of sticks and stones and titillative politics, the real terror is the game itself -- the camouflage that we, the American public, allow our politicians, our corporations, and ourselves to hide under, and not just during campaign season.

    Crystal Syben Haidl: Fondling Democracy 2008

  • The titillative rake or the peremptory hoe does not help you much in their discovery; for their color is that of the soil, their size as various as that of bits of gravel, and they are not easily perceptible to a cursory glance from the ordinary height of the eye.

    Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, August, 1878 Various

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