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Grammar : Verb
Spell : tit-l-ey-ting
Phonetic Transcription : ˈtɪt lˌeɪ tɪŋ



Definition of titillating

Origin :
  • 1610s, back-formation from titillation. Related: Titillated; titillating.
  • verb excite, stimulate
Example sentences :
  • You may curse in five languages: it is music to their titillating ears.
  • Extract from : « Our Southern Highlanders » by Horace Kephart
  • Hers was actually the titillating wonder of a bird which, captured, closes its wings, that surrender can be so sweet.
  • Extract from : « Americans All » by Various
  • This woman is doubtless miserable, though after all, perhaps, the titillating joys of glory are not unknown to her.
  • Extract from : « Baudelaire: His Prose and Poetry » by Charles Baudelaire
  • These ancient snuff-boxes furnish proof of the love of our ancestors for the titillating powder.
  • Extract from : « Ten Thousand Wonderful Things » by Edmund Fillingham King
  • These were "bloods," tremendous swells, grown men with a titillating flavour of the world about their distinguished persons.
  • Extract from : « The Hill » by Horace Annesley Vachell
  • The titillating odour of this concoction came now, on the breeze, to the nostrils of Tansey, awakening in him hunger for it.
  • Extract from : « Roads of Destiny » by O. Henry
  • Knows he that never took a pinch, Nosey, the pleasure thence which flows, Knows he the titillating joysWhich my nose knows?
  • Extract from : « The Book of Humorous Verse » by Various
  • He had faced danger and tragedy since he could toddle, and fear had never overridden the titillating sense of adventure.
  • Extract from : « Cow-Country » by B. M. Bower
  • They snap snappishly at the titillating straw; they snatch at it with their weird little hands; they parry it skilfully.
  • Extract from : « The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 10, No. 58, August, 1862 » by Various

Synonyms for titillating

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