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Discover LudwigThe word "titillate" is correct and usable in written English
You can use it when referring to something that excites or stimulates, usually in a pleasurable way. For example, "The music was so lively that it titillated my senses."
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For NoMorePage3 campaigners, it was always about context – placed prominently in the newspaper, the images sent the message that the news about women was their breasts, and that they were passive decorations there to titillate man.
Now that the Gaullists have lost their Eurosceptic leader, Phillipe Séguin, who resigned recently, they might just do so.If, for some reason, so much excitement fails to titillate, a few countries are laying on a cast of colourful characters to enliven the show.
According to the book, the male MI5 officers that she had to work with were blimpish, monocled fools from central casting, snoozing through the afternoon after a heavy lunch at the club.The books of other renegade spies like Peter Wright and Kim Philby titillate with juicy anecdotes about fieldcraft, the latest in bugging techniques and political plots.
Pap television programmes (ie, most of them) and celebrity magazines need a diet of sensationalist trash to titillate their viewers and listeners.
But in 1981 a court found that, unlike the Playboy Club, Southwest's business was not "forthrightly to titillate and entice male customers", but to ferry them from Dallas to Houston.
But one day Marylou's may have to choose between claiming its business is "forthrightly to titillate male customers", or change its hiring practices.
ReprintsThis illustrated pantomime's most appealing quality: a capacity to amuse all the family, often with lewd gags, designed to titillate oldies and befuddle their offspring.
So a penis is permissible when carved by the hand of a master sculptor, and a breast is fine if it is photographed not to titillate but in the course of feeding an infant.
THE words "probate exception" do not titillate.
Still, they never lose their power to entertain and titillate.
Over three hours, Peter Morgan (Frost/Nixon, The Last King of Scotland), is taking a long, cold look at the freedom of the press, musing on both its right to titillate, pillory and conduct its own trials and our right to enjoy it.
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