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sexual

/sek-shoo-uhl or, especially British, seks-yoo-/US // ˈsɛk ʃu əl or, especially British, ˈsɛks yu- //UK // (ˈsɛksjʊəl) //

性,性别,淫性,淫乱的

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : of, relating to, or for sex: sexual matters; sexual aids.
    • : occurring between or involving the sexes: sexual relations.
    • : having sexual organs or reproducing by processes involving both sexes.

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Examples

  • Consider the response of photographer Jonathan Leder when The Cut asked him about Ratajkowski’s allegations of sexual misconduct.

  • Our government should never have represented the issue of sexual harassment in the way that it did.

  • Frollo’s sexual hypocrisy and raging hatred of Esmeralda, the object of his desires, makes him the perfect allegory for modern-day homophobes.

  • Apple pointed out that its guidelines prohibit “overtly sexual or pornographic material” and stressed it has a responsibility to provide a safe and trusted place for users to get apps.

  • Louisiana’s hate crimes law includes sexual orientation, but not gender identity.

  • The CDA was passed not in the name of censorship but in the name of protecting children from stumbling across sexual material.

  • But he, like many people using dating apps whatever their sexual identity, remains stoutly positive.

  • Yeah, the “Giant man-puppy” that is Gronkowski won't hold a sexual candle to the blue-eyed dreamboat.

  • Early on, the sexual protagonist complains that her Molson-drinking husband is pretty much an incompetent Neanderthal.

  • It also contains some clunky passages of adultery, temptations of the flesh, and general sexual awkwardness.

  • The sexual cycle can take place only within the body of one genus of mosquito, anopheles.

  • With regard to the effects on the sexual powers, I have not sufficient data upon which to found positive rules.

  • Darwin's view that it may have been a result of sexual selection seems the most probable explanation.

  • There have been waves of sexual crime in various countries at various times.

  • In Monmouthshire last year there was an increase of 88 per cent in sexual offences.