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- adjective Causing feelings of acute
embarrassment - adjective Causing feelings of
arousal orexcitement (especially sexual)
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Examples
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Further, Langdon deems the sculpture — which depicts St. Teresa of Avila in spiritual ecstasy, based on a description in her autobiography — as pornographic, as it supposedly depicts the saint “on her back in the throes of a toe-curling orgasm.”
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Every lunchtime we would return from a morning in the sand to the same spread of fresh bread, liver pâté, cheese and cucumber all accompanied by my grandad's toe-curling jokes.
Family life 2011
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Still, many worry that toe-curling predictions like those found in a new forecast by NOAA on the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will come back to bite us should they not pan out precisely as anticipated.
Kelly Rigg: Climate Rapture: Creating a Heavenly Future Here on Earth Kelly Rigg 2011
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Erez Lieberman styled himself as Decurio, the name given to the leader of a Roman squad of ten people, and used it as an excuse to crack toe-curling jokes.
SuperCooperators Martin A. Nowak 2011
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Sadly, they are fated to be remembered less for their four successive wins en route to Ireland than for the toe-curling denouement.
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Still, many worry that toe-curling predictions like those found in a new forecast by NOAA on the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will come back to bite us should they not pan out precisely as anticipated.
Kelly Rigg: Climate Rapture: Creating a Heavenly Future Here on Earth Kelly Rigg 2011
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Such sustained claustrophobic darkness made "2666" a smothering reading experience, but a slimmer work such as "The Skating Rink" published in English in 2009, 20 years after appearing in Spanish, also set on the Costa Brava, can be eerily hypnotizing, with flashes of toe-curling horror.
Threatening Weather on Menace Beach Sam Sacks 2011
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For long stretches at a time, he seems entirely unaware that Amelia's right there by his side and dying to give him another one of those toe-curling kisses.
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Still, many worry that toe-curling predictions like those found in a new forecast by NOAA on the 2011 Atlantic hurricane season will come back to bite us should they not pan out precisely as anticipated.
Kelly Rigg: Climate Rapture: Creating a Heavenly Future Here on Earth Kelly Rigg 2011
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Spencer delights in mining the crudest elements of sex and bodily functions for toe-curling but breathtaking entertainment.
sionnach commented on the word toe-curling
pués, algo dificil de hacer si estás trayendo tus nuevos sollerets
March 20, 2009
lea commented on the word toe-curling
Mon dieu, it's really hard to get your toes curled in those shoes! Thank God for the crocs! Every knight who loves his toes, uses crocs these days...
March 21, 2009