titillated
ti tuh lay tid
- v touch (a body part) lightly so as to excite the surface nerves and cause uneasiness, laughter, or spasmodic movements
- v excite pleasurably or erotically
- s feeling mild pleasurable excitement
- In some ways, the puritanical swimsuit now seems to be on the other torso a new French squeamishness that will doubtless leave some Americans, well, titillated.
- PTI titillated readers with excerpts from her diary, revelations that PTI called "as purple as the ink they were written in.
- To live every week like it's Shark Week, then, might be a metaphor for living in our media environment: to spend every week titillated by unlikely threats, getting whipped into .