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Titillated   /tˈɪtəlˌeɪtɪd/   Listen
Titillated

adjective
1.
Feeling mild pleasurable excitement.  Synonym: teased.





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"Titillated" Quotes from Famous Books



... skilfully he managed it, what compromises he effected, painting in a style which aped the audacity of truth without possessing one original merit. And it would be sure to meet with success, the bourgeois were only too fond of being titillated while the artist pretended to hustle them. Ah! it was time indeed for a true artist to appear in that mournful desert of a Salon, amid all the knaves and the fools. And, by heavens, what a place ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola
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... wrote to me just such a letter as one might have dreamed of from the "Autocrat": "One of my elderly friends of long ago called a story of mine you may possibly have heard of—Elsie Venner—'a medicated novel,' and such she said she was not in the habit of reading. I liked her expression; it titillated more than it tingled. Robert Elsmere I suppose we should all agree is 'a medicated novel'—but it is, I think, beyond question, the most effective and popular novel we have had ...
— A Writer's Recollections (In Two Volumes), Volume II • Mrs. Humphry Ward
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Words linked to "Titillated" :   teased, excited


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