Definitions
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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
titillate .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective feeling mild pleasurable excitement
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Examples
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And while I'm all for being titillated, that is not a sport.
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And while I'm all for being titillated, that is not a sport.
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While I'm all for being titillated, that is not a sport.
NPR Topics: News 2010
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Chine, sparerib, and sausage, such as titillated our palates in the first half of the nineteenth century, are not to be had now for love or money.
Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life, 1910
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(Even when I was a high school student I might have been titillated by them in the usual adolescent manner, but I wouldn't have been horrified or unduly influenced by them.)
Literary Study 2009
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Inspiration: Furniture has 'titillated' him since childhood, he says.
Wanted: a Second Chance Christina Binkley 2011
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Consider it an image thing: Men still report being more titillated by images online than women 26 percent versus 9 percent.
Marian Salzman: Love in the Time of Connectivity Marian Salzman 2011
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Readers will be more grateful for than titillated by her willingness to strip bare what is so well-hidden in our culture: how great grief threatens the very soul.
Joyce Carol Oates's "A Widow's Story" Post 2011
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He has titillated his readers by marrying his aunt and then writing about it; marrying his cousin and writing about that, too.
The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize Marie Arana 2010
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He has titillated his readers by marrying his aunt and then writing about it; marrying his cousin and writing about that, too.
The power of Mario Vargas Llosa's words led the political writer to Nobel Prize Marie Arana 2010
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