as in passionate
having a strong sexual desire
a raunchy movie comedy featuring the usual assortment of oversexed teenagers hoping to lose their virginity
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Recent Examples of oversexed
Angela is a bad mother who is oversexed and spoiled by her new husband.
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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
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
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Montessori was passionate about education from a young age.Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Jan. 2025
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Yamada focuses her work on culture, identity and politics, and is passionate about using her lens to connect with people, share their stories and make a meaningful impact in their communities.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 6 Jan. 2025
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Offering hot drinks and a lounge with sofas, as well as booths for injections, the Safer Drug Consumption Facility is the first of its kind in Britain and follows similar initiatives in other cities around the world, including New York.Stephen Castle, New York Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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These hot, dry, east-to-west winds caused by a high-pressure system are typical of the Santa Ana winds, which can afflict Southern California more than a dozen times per year.Ned Kleiner, Los Angeles Times, 10 Jan. 2025
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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
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Bill Skarsgård’s Count Orlok is more a Romanian folk vampire — decayed but still quite libidinous — than suave, past aristocrats limned by Bela Lugosi and Christopher Lee.Bob Strauss, Los Angeles Times, 3 Dec. 2024
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Of course, her new leaf still looks suspiciously like her old one — the goal of her study is to prove that women are just as horny as men.Christina Grace Tucker, Vulture, 19 Dec. 2024
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That level of sentiment would be tough to maintain if a show about such fundamentally horny, stupid people planned to last for several more years.Alan Sepinwall, Rolling Stone, 16 Dec. 2024
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Joining Thomas’s ensuing battle to save his wife from the lustful Orlok’s trance is Professor Albin Eberhart Von Franz (Willem Dafoe).David Sims, The Atlantic, 24 Dec. 2024
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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
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He was charged with seven counts of lewd and lascivious molestation against a child between 12 and 16 years old, three counts of offenses against students by authority figures, and three counts of lewd and lascivious behavior.Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 6 Jan. 2025
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The goal of Troye and Charli’s austere, loud, lascivious evening is to take the sweet abandon of the club and scale it up to the arena.Jeremy D. Larson, Pitchfork, 24 Sep. 2024
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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
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Bernadette’s unexpected arrival suggests that being randy runs in the family.Lisa Kennedy, The Denver Post, 19 Sep. 2024
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While some online trolls criticized the actress' appearance, other observers rushed to her defense, calling out the comments' lecherous and misogynistic overtones and reproaching the invasion of privacy represented by the photos themselves.Ryan Coleman, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2024
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Cornwell’s Merlin is one of the last of his kind, a lecherous old schemer, intent on preserving Britain and its old druidic ways in the face of encroaching Christianity.Erik Kain, Forbes, 8 Sep. 2024
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“Oversexed.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/oversexed. Accessed 18 Jan. 2025.
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