Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Of, relating to, or tending to arouse sexual desire for a person of the same sex.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Arousing a
homosexual desire. - adjective Pertaining to homosexual
love ordesire - adjective
homosexual
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective of or concerning homosexual love
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Examples
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The native North American peoples in these paintings are camping it up so much that the term homoerotic does not do them justice.
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Why they ban a gay-friendly ad during a game so outwardly homoerotic is nothing short of capitulation to right-wing interests.
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And, no disrespect to Wilt Chamberlain, but it will probably require a cultural shift to erase what Mr. Blackman described as the "homoerotic" connotations of very short shorts on men.
Show Some Leg 2011
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Some swear it was the ribald gang of rag-tag homoerotic bank robbers who stole the show.
Point Break…adapted for stage. Homoerotic! Sensational! Idiotic! « Julian Ayrs & Pop Culture 2008
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The same site decries "a painting the Smithsonian itself describes in the show's catalog as 'homoerotic'."
Museums shouldn't bow to censorship of any kind Blake Gopnik 2010
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Something about "homoerotic" and "ant-covered Jesus," combined with a mention of the Christmas season, seems to have struck the right nerve among right-wingers.
Terry Krepel: Manufactured Outrage Over Smithsonian Art Exhibit Terry Krepel 2010
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Something about "homoerotic" and "ant-covered Jesus," combined with a mention of the Christmas season, seems to have struck the right nerve among right-wingers.
Terry Krepel: Manufactured Outrage Over Smithsonian Art Exhibit Terry Krepel 2010
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I can't imagine that "homoerotic" has been around for very long (relatively speaking), especially seeing as how homosexual didn't come along until almost the twentieth century.
My mechanic Steve 2007
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I can't imagine that "homoerotic" has been around for very long (relatively speaking), especially seeing as how homosexual didn't come along until almost the twentieth century.
My mechanic Steve 2007
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Not long ago, I took a political blogger named billmon to task for insulting conservative bloggers he didn't like by using the word 'homoerotic' to describe their apparent fixation with America's heroic soldiery.
Friday Night Open Thread: Comics Rogers 2005
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