masturbatory

– Well, I’m a libertarian who thinks the libertarian party is an exercise in masturbatory moralism.

Waldo Jaquith - Slow times at Stony Point Elementary. 2006

For themselves (and while I would instinctively label it "masturbatory", this mode does imply a somewhat "purer" form of writing, if you subscribe to such notions in this post-post-post modern age);

why you write Dean Francis Alfar 2005

A pair of dark-haired sisters who shared an uncanny mental bond played chess at one of the tables, which seemed kind of masturbatory, somehow.

Dead Beat Butcher, Jim 2005

The next one is a really interesting discourse in philosophy, and it comes not in a kind of masturbatory intellectual discourse of big words and bull crap, but it really lets you find out what the big point is.

Comic Book Resources 2010

I understand what DFW was going for in this section -- talking about hideous disfigurements while also reveling in the beauty of the words ... but it just comes across as a kind of masturbatory Don DeLillo homage.

Parabasis 2009

That makes the distinction between "masturbatory" restoration and an actual restoration even clearer.

Home Theater Forum 2009

Antinous/Moderator said: "You mean 'masturbatory' isn't a compliment?

Boing Boing 2009

All they possessed was a linding, visceral hatred of the left and a masturbatory lust for the return to power.

Think Progress » Bartlett: Frum’s Dismissal Shows ‘All That Matters Now Is Absolute Subservient Adherence’ To The GOP 2010

Again, how is Sarah Palin going to help you besides whatever is in your masturbatory fantasies?

Think Progress » Palin bars media from two upcoming Florida events. 2010

By 13, most of them already have sex lives – at least masturbatory ones.

The Volokh Conspiracy » Sex Education, Dirty Words, and the Due Process Clause 2010