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

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

Gay people aren’t sexless cherubs whose sole purpose in life is to make straight people more fabulous!

From Slate • Sep. 17, 2018

And then, of course, there’s the “straight-friendly” mainstream takes, in which the gay man is often depicted as almost entirely sexless – see Will & Grace, or the gay couple in Modern Family.

From The Guardian • May 17, 2017

So far as he was concerned, she might have been born in her severe, her sexless, long and shapeless habit, always black or gray.

From "Go Tell It on the Mountain" by James Baldwin