sex-starved
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- adjective
- /sɛksˈstɑrvd/
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- Tonight, when I pick her up and she comes out onto her parents' front porch, I see her seeing me, sunbaked, shorthaired, sex-starved, and oddly wrong-looking in my civilian clothes.
- sex-starved marriage
Examples
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The character in the play was portrayed as sex-starved, desperately seeking affection and fulfillment.
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I'm better than those God-fearing, sex-starved, TV evangelists!
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We're a nation of sex-starved, frustrated men, so we jog and vote for the death penalty!
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A cab driver is shacked up with a sex-starved medium named Blanche Tyler.
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After months without intimacy, he felt utterly sex-starved and longed for a meaningful connection.
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In a recent article, the author described how a sex-starved society often resorts to unrealistic portrayals of relationships.
Synonyms
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Wanting to have sex
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Showing strong sexual desire that makes others uncomfortable
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Having too much interest in sex that makes other people uncomfortable
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Not feeling satisfied because a wish was not met
How Sexually Deprived
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Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word sex-starved joins sex and starved; starved means 'lacking food' or 'very hungry', so a sex-starved person is described as being very hungry for sex because they do not have it.