sexless

Example Sentences

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The character followed a tradition of popular drag acts, but O'Grady said he wanted to stand out from the "matronly and sexless" figures who had come before, like Dame Edna Everage and Hinge and Bracket.

From BBC • Mar. 29, 2023

“People essentially have her down as a sort of Miss Marple – a sexless, removed, bookish, woolly, very English sort of individual,” he said.

From The Guardian • Nov. 15, 2019

In other words, like many stars, it's easy to project all kinds of fantasy scenarios on Rudd, all of them childishly innocent and sexless and, if we're lucky, include him dancing awkwardly.

From Salon • Oct. 19, 2019

Such rigidly sexless people, Mailer says, were locked into their belief in an American infallibility blessed by God, and they couldn’t begin to question the war.

From The New Yorker • Aug. 26, 2018

Moving clockwise, we encounter the determinedly sexless Russ and Bobbie Brooks lines, seemingly aimed at pudgy fourth-grade teachers with important barbecues to attend.

From "Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America" by Barbara Ehrenreich