autoerotic

adjective

Definition of autoeroticnext
as in prurient

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Recent Examples of Synonyms for autoerotic
  1. prurient
  2. lascivious
  3. lustful
  4. lewd
  5. obscene
  6. suggestive
  7. erotic
  8. bawdy
Adjective
  • During this time, Law was hounded by the press and made into an object of prurient fascination and lust.
    Ramin Setoodeh, Variety, 30 Oct. 2024
  • Apart from prurient interest, why should any of us really care?
    Robin Abcarian, The Mercury News, 3 Oct. 2024
Definition of prurient
Adjective
  • Urias was booked into the St. Lucie County jail on counts that included lewd and lascivious behavior, burglary, possession of marijuana and battery of a law enforcement officer.
    WPEC Staff, Baltimore Sun, 4 Dec. 2024
  • Joe Urias was arrested on charges of lewd and lascivious behavior, burglary of an unoccupied structure, marijuana possession and battery on an officer, according to an arrest affidavit obtained by PEOPLE.
    Christine Pelisek, People.com, 5 Dec. 2024
Definition of lascivious
Adjective
  • The British actor finds the humor and sensitivity in his lustful swain, and his mellifluous voice is perfectly matched to Shakespeare’s prose.
    Patrick Ryan, USA TODAY, 25 Oct. 2024
  • Otto Hightower – 3 points The grandson Otto installed as king is overruling him in front of the people and getting bamboozled into ousting him as Hand by a man who trades secrets in exchange for lustful glances at Otto’s daughter’s toes.
    Brian Grubb, Vulture, 16 June 2024
Definition of lustful
Adjective
  • Rosenthal also engaged in lewd chats with a Vacaville teen, and expressed an interest in young girls throughout his texts.
    Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 15 Nov. 2024
  • The comedian compared Trump’s recent false claims about Haitian immigrants eating pets in Ohio to his lewd comments in the tape.
    Anna Lazarus Caplan, People.com, 30 Oct. 2024
Definition of lewd
Adjective
  • Blink Twice nods at a tangle of different contemporary ailments: lifestyle fetishism, wellness hedonism, our obscene fealty to stolid tech bros and their untrammeled wealth.
    Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 6 Dec. 2024
  • Many are short baby names—partly because Australia prohibits long names, obscene words, and names with symbols or too many hyphens.1 Here are some of our favorite boys' names from the land down under.
    Sherri Gordon, Parents, 2 Dec. 2024
Definition of obscene
Adjective
  • Police say the man kept asking the girl suggestive questions, asked for photographs and sent some of himself.
    Ron Wood, arkansasonline.com, 10 Dec. 2024
  • Their spinsterhood took on an ominous cast, their celibacy no longer evidence of pure, Christian love, but now suggestive of physical, emotional, and intellectual degeneracy.
    Natalie Kinkade, JSTOR Daily, 25 Sep. 2024
Definition of suggestive
Adjective
  • The film is an erotic thriller with nods to Brian De Palma and Paul Verhoeven, but with a Brazilian twist.
    Leo Barraclough, Variety, 18 Dec. 2024
  • Ryan, then America’s sweetheart and established queen of the rom-com, had around that time changed direction, appearing in Jane Campion’s erotic thriller The Cut, and UK interviewer Michael Parkinson grilled her on her decision to appear nude.
    Caroline Frost, Deadline, 15 Dec. 2024
Definition of erotic
Adjective
  • That’s a throwback, too, to the bawdy times of season one, briefly glimpsed on the shabby screen in the vampires’ makeshift home theater at the end-end (as opposed to the parody end, or the end for the cameras) of the series.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 17 Dec. 2024
  • What if all the power plays and factional scheming of House of the Dragon had a bawdy, comedic edge to it?
    Matt Kamen, WIRED, 30 Nov. 2024
Definition of bawdy
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