Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of pornography; describing or descriptive of prostitutes ; having to do with pornographs.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Of or pertaining to pornography; lascivious; licentious.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Containing an
explicit depiction ofsexual activity. - adjective Depicting something in
detail , usuallyunnecessarily .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective designed to arouse lust
Etymologies
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Examples
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At the computer shop, several technicians looked through the computer files and found what they described as pornographic pictures in the backup folder of the data drive.
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He decided it would grab attention and be funny if he interspersed images of women in pornographic poses among his slides of code and bullet points.
Web Teacher › A Tipping Point for Women in Tech? Here’s hoping. 2009
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Contestants will then scramble to Google to find an image or link that puts that person, character or concept in pornographic light.
Boing Boing 2008
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Hardhats also indulged heavily in pornographic imagery and — if opportunity arose — in voyeurism.
Manhood in the Age of Aquarius: Masculinity in Two Countercultural Communities, 196583 2007
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If a photograph can be deemed pornographic, is a stick figure rendering of the same scene also pornographic?
Boing Boing: August 13, 2006 - August 19, 2006 Archives 2006
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We all know that there are things that people do in pornographic films that they do not do in real life.
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It will present multiple perspectives on our growing immersion in pornographic web-based media.
Boing Boing: September 18, 2005 - September 24, 2005 Archives 2005
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The ease with which the novel of sensibility blends with the Gothic and even the pornographic is readily explained: feeling is gendered female in patriarchal culture, since the mother seems to be the source of all emotion, as we see in Sade's dream.
Notes, "'Mummy, possest': Sadism and Sensibility in Shelley's _Frankenstein_" 2003
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They cannot use the word pornographic to describe any materials that they received in any of their searches of Mr. Jackson's various properties.
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COOPER: Lisa, what do you make of what Miguel Marquez just reported about the defense trying to limit the use of the word pornographic in describing, I guess, some of the magazines or whatever it was that was found in Jackson's ranch.
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