titillating

Example Sentences

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He is not above making occasional impromptu speeches or working for a laugh as he did last week with the titivating run in Arensky's Scherzo.

From Time Magazine Archive

To assert that she only thought of spending did not satisfy his spleen; he must add "titivating herself."

From The Plain Man and His Wife by Bennett, Arnold

It lay open, and anybody could use the things that wanted to; I didn't, but had a good look while E. E. was titivating in the crowd before the glass.

From Phemie Frost's Experiences by Stephens, Ann S. (Ann Sophia)

"What about all this stuff?" she asks, while titivating herself; "we'd better not leave it about, it looks so untidy."

From Second Thoughts of an Idle Fellow by Jerome, Jerome K. (Jerome Klapka)

She stopped titivating herself at the mirror, and turning round groaned in a voice of horror: “Wou je eten?”

From The Further Adventures of O'Neill in Holland by Brown, J. Irwin