titillate

A good newspaper seeks scoops that illuminate reality and don’t merely titillate.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 7, 2025

There's little doubt that his mass of executive orders on day one will feature some eye-catching actions designed to titillate his base.

From BBC ● Jan. 19, 2025

Instead of disseminating useful information and debating important ideas, the internet is too often used to promote whacky theories and titillate users with inane gossip.

From Salon ● Apr. 22, 2023

“Harry’s House” is pleasant and mild and distinctly unadventurous, calculated to occasionally titillate but never offend.

From Washington Post ● May 23, 2022

Today, when everything that I do has an urgency, I would not spend one hour in the preparation of a book which had the ambition to perhaps titillate some readers.

From "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" by Alex Malcolm X;Hailey

Ironically, the film mirrors the callow cinematic dynamics it critiques: It titillates, even as it scolds.

From New York Times ● Feb. 2, 2023

Verhoeven’s world is the exception that titillates not to challenge the rule but to sucker viewers into overlooking it, ignoring it, and dismissing it.

From The New Yorker ● Nov. 15, 2016

The title Hot Feminist titillates, and the content is controversial in a bland sort of way, if you’ve never read anything about feminism except what its detractors purport that it’s about.

From The Guardian ● May 20, 2015

The chemistry between these two groups isn’t always perfect, but the combination still titillates — more, at any rate, than Jeff Koons’s recently exhibited “Made in Heaven” series of the early 1990s.

From New York Times ● Feb. 10, 2011

The more delicate and poisonous the perfume of this atmosphere and the more æsthetic the refinement by which it titillates the senses, the greater is its destructive action.

From The Sexual Question A Scientific, psychological, hygienic and sociological study by Auguste Forel

It was once the job of “sleazy” tabloids to destroy lives with lurid gossip that titillated the public but lacked public interest in the high-minded sense.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025

Which suggests voters aren’t nearly as titillated by all that sparkle and shine as the political mentioners would like to think.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 9, 2025

Prince Harry's memoir "Spare" has titillated followers of the British royal family, with eye-popping revelations about life as a royal serving as tabloid fodder for weeks now.

From Salon ● Jan. 20, 2023

Far from being titillated, I found I was unexpectedly saddened by this book.

From Slate ● Nov. 27, 2019

The prosecution of Marsha Colbey eventually caught the attention of the press, which was titillated by another “dangerous mother” story.

From "Just Mercy" by Bryan Stevenson

In fact, in the hoo-hah over the Lakers, titillating to the media on both coasts, Mr. Trump has been a non-factor.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 21, 2026

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

I acknowledge that chaos is titillating, and change can be exciting, and I understand the lure of joining an elite conference and what that can mean as far as prestige and visibility.

From Seattle Times ● Aug. 4, 2023

“Deep down, all British people love it: We love gossip and love the titillating things other people are getting up to,” she added.

From New York Times ● Apr. 15, 2022

For audiences reared on the regular, predictable patterns of Haydn and Mozart, the Eroica’s many noisy surprises would have been both titillating and bewildering.

From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall