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
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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.
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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.
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