titillating

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The lesbian scene in episode nine tonight is kind of titillating, so to speak.

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  1. pleasantly and superficially exciting
  2. exciting by touching lightly so as to cause laughter or twitching movements
  3. giving sexual pleasure; sexually arousing

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  • Anna waited for a titillating frisson of fear to follow the thought, but it didn't. —  Blood Lure
  • Swift fancies, visions, dumb thoughts, titillating, and making them go pale, and their hearts sink under their desire, bringing all about them a buzzing as of bees. —  Jean-Christophe, Vol. I
  • It evokes titillating, exciting and positive images. —  ChronWatch - Articles
  • Mixing class and sex envy with racial exoticism was hokey-titillating yet exposed Van Sant's hidden urges and showed his questionable sense of social remedy. —  New York Press
  • A Harvard Business School assistant professor who had access to customer receipts from dozens of adult websites found something titillating: The more conservative and religious a state is, the more likely its residents are to buy Web porn. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
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