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Recent Examples of oversexed Angela is a bad mother who is oversexed and spoiled by her new husband. Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 19 Nov. 2024 Wentworth plays a loving yet oversexed, no-filter mom; infusing the character with her signature candor and admits to aspiring to make her onscreen daughter as uncomfortable as possible for the sake of comedy. Xian Horn, Forbes, 4 Sep. 2024 The show, a Ryan Murphy production, lasted only two seasons, but Powell’s performance as an oversexed college student turned heads. Brooks Barnes, New York Times, 7 June 2024 Embedded in the dangerous, oversexed bad boy rock ‘n roll package is an irrepressible sense of humor that feels like Idol is making fun of himself over anyone else. Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 15 Dec. 2023 The image of Chaplin the man had become virtually the inverse of the Tramp’s: oversexed, ungenerous, anti-American. Louis Menand, The New Yorker, 13 Nov. 2023 Other characters are familiar — the oversexed aunt (Kristin Chenoweth chews scenery with aplomb), the Black friend (Andrew Bachelor wrings out a few chuckles), the too-perfect couple with thinly veiled problems solvable by montage, the wacky younger sibling. Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times, 27 Oct. 2020 There was no one like me in his classroom, not the oversexed women with their careful, edited looks, not the punk and post-punk kids. Hazlitt, 10 May 2023 Ronald Reagan was in the White House, MTV was newly influential, and Houston's love-conquers-all ballads came as sweet music to the ears of both pop fans and MTV executives—who were getting heat for oversexed video imagery and for under-representing Black artists. People Staff, PEOPLE.com, 12 Feb. 2022
Recent Examples of Synonyms for oversexed
Adjective
  • Despite some of the passionate opposition, the committee voted 6-2 in favor of the bill on Tuesday.
    Heather Hunter, Washington Examiner - Political News and Conservative Analysis About Congress, the President, and the Federal Government, 20 Mar. 2025
  • Expect to feel energized and passionate in your one-on-one connections — whether that’s with a romantic partner, a close friend or a business colleague.
    Valerie Mesa, People.com, 20 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • And in the dead of Southern summers, the last thing any sleeper wants to encounter is being hot, and that’s where science steps in.
    Nicole Letts, Southern Living, 23 Mar. 2025
  • Wiggins was hot, but the Heat’s leading duo was relatively quiet.
    Anthony Chiang, Miami Herald, 22 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Medieval scholars – all men – defined women’s temperament in negative terms: Women were libidinous, frivolous, unfaithful, capricious, unpredictable and easily tempted.
    Joelle Rollo-Koster, The Conversation, 25 Feb. 2025
  • This time around, even critics were convinced, joining in with libidinous fans to praise the blood-sucking second season, which was recently nominated for two Critics Choice Awards after being largely snubbed by voting bodies last year.
    Elaina Patton, NBC News, 27 Dec. 2024
Adjective
  • The horny women and club rat gays of cinemaland will never forget this slight.
    Vulture Staff, Vulture, 2 Mar. 2025
  • Moore and Ty Burrell play horny neighbors interested in seducing Zoë Kravitz.
    Eddie Mouradian, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • Instead of worrying that rich foods would lead to lustful appetites, Americans began worrying that rich foods would kill their libidos.
    Rachel Hope Cleves / Made by History, TIME, 14 Feb. 2025
  • The story about Dieter sounds mostly made up, likely by a lustful Kier who invented a lustful brother to cover up his secret shame.
    Josh Wigler, The Hollywood Reporter, 10 Feb. 2025
Adjective
  • William Francis Chatel was arrested Tuesday, March 11, and charged with lewd or lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 years of age, according to online court records.
    KC Baker, People.com, 13 Mar. 2025
  • William Chatel of Rhode Island is facing a charge of lewd and lascivious molestation of a victim under 12 years of age, according to Orange County records.
    Olivia Lloyd, Miami Herald, 12 Mar. 2025
Adjective
  • Another member of the household who just happens to be passing by in one of the residence’s many hallways is Nadja, whose attraction to randy Englishmen seems to cross generational boundaries as well.
    Katie Rife, Vulture, 12 Nov. 2024
  • Bernadette’s unexpected arrival suggests that being randy runs in the family.
    Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
Adjective
  • Nightclubs are full of lecherous old Americans groping belly dancers with their webbed frog hands.
    Emily Zemler, Rolling Stone, 27 Feb. 2025
  • American baritone Titus Muzzi III makes his LVO debut in the title role of the swaggering, lecherous nobleman whose proud and stubborn defiance of authority leads to his spectacular and fiery demise.
    Randy McMullen, The Mercury News, 27 Feb. 2025

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“Oversexed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversexed. Accessed 31 Mar. 2025.

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