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exceedingly coarse, and has fallen into well-deserved oblivion. — Italian<br />

Popular Tales;<br />

• (indecent)- not decent; unbecoming or unseemly, ( ; ; );<br />

Other city states considered such exercise indecent, claiming that it incited<br />

men to commit grave crimes. — Lion Of Macedon;<br />

• (obscene)- offensive to morality or decency; indecent; depraved, ( );<br />

She willed herself not to listen to these obscene, and silly, accusations. —<br />

Mary Queen Of Scotland And The Isles;<br />

erotic erratic<br />

• (erotic)- arousing or satisfying sexual desire, ( ); They<br />

deal not only with matters to which the word erotic is generally applied, but<br />

also with unnatural practices. — The Life of Sir Richard Burton;<br />

• (erratic)- having no certain or definite course; wandering; not fixed, ((<br />

) ; ); Her life prior to the coma<br />

was dysfunctional, erratic, and filled with self-centeredness;<br />

titillating : sensuous : sensual = carnal = sultry swelter<br />

• (titillating)- to excite or arouse agreeably;<br />

• to tickle; excite a tingling or itching sensation in, as by touching or stroking<br />

lightly, ( ); In spite of melodramatic elements and other literary faults,<br />

it is unquestionably a sincere work, written without any idea<br />

of titillating morbid fancies. — Venus in Furs;<br />

• (sensuous)- of or pertaining to sensible objects or to the senses,<br />

( ); Our nature is so constituted that intuition with us never can be<br />

other than sensuous, that is, it contains only the mode in which we are<br />

affected by objects. — The Critique of Pure Reason;<br />

• (sensual)- relating to or affecting any of the senses or a sense organ;<br />

sensory; I am a carnal, sensual, and greedy man, whom you ought<br />

thoroughly to despise. — The Life and Legends of Saint Francis of Assisi;<br />

• (carnal)- pertaining to or characterized by the flesh or the body, its<br />

passions and appetites; sensual, ( ; ;<br />

; ); Are not most of you carnal, all flesh,—the flesh<br />

gives laws, and you obey them? — The Works of the Rev. Hugh Binning;<br />

• not spiritual; merely human; temporal; worldly;<br />

• (sultry)- characterized by or arousing passion, ( ; ; );<br />

• oppressively hot and close or moist; sweltering, (( , )<br />

; ); It was hot and sultry, which is rare in an English June—Night<br />

and Morning, Complete;

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