How to Use exhibitionism in a Sentence

exhibitionism

noun
  • But then again, exhibitionism, or lack thereof, doesn’t matter in the court of law.
    — Ananya Bhattacharya, Quartz, 8 Dec. 2022
  • Most scat singing over the past 50 years has been rote exhibitionism, a cheap thrill that puts hip listeners to sleep.
    — Will Friedwald, WSJ, 16 Mar. 2021
  • Then, in a burst of exhibitionism, some of them expose their breasts or other body parts in exchange for cheap plastic beads.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 3 Dec. 2020
  • The clubs can also be popular spaces to hook up, an exhibitionism looked down upon by some.
    — New York Times, 18 Aug. 2022
  • To shy away from the universality of that theme risks treating her work as exhibitionism.
    — Spencer Kornhaber, The Atlantic, 17 Apr. 2020
  • Shrum believes that ritual disrobement is more than mere exhibitionism, and that beads are crucial to the custom.
    — Doug MacCash | Staff Writer, NOLA.com, 9 Dec. 2020
  • Any whiff of vanity, of self-satisfaction, of unchecked exhibitionism, was distasteful to her.
    — Katie Roiphe, The Atlantic, 15 Jan. 2023
  • His Lola perfectly epitomized the classic drag queen’s panache for exhibitionism and camp.
    — Tirdad Derakhshani, Philly.com, 4 Oct. 2017
  • This is supposed to be the season of unleashed, exuberant exhibitionism.
    — Sophie Gilbert, The Atlantic, 18 June 2021
  • Hemingway, demonstrating yet again the quality of his friendship, denounced the essays as an act of puerile exhibitionism.
    — Christopher Buckley, WSJ, 2 Sep. 2022
  • His eagerness to speak and theirs to listen created a vortex of exhibitionism and voyeurism that sucked in millions of viewers in the pandemic’s early weeks.
    — Molly Fischer, The New Yorker, 13 June 2022
  • The book features flogging, leather, exhibitionism, rough play, bondage, gender bending, and many more dramatization of pleasure.
    — Hazlitt, 5 June 2024
  • Officials have also noted that voyeurism and exhibitionism will not be tolerated.
    — Brigit Katz, Smithsonian, 31 Aug. 2017
  • The drag queens and gender-nonbinary youth at such events can appear preoccupied with their own ecstatic exhibitionism.
    — Andrew Solomon, New York Times, 27 June 2019
  • Her exhibitionism and honesty seem entirely normal for a now-adult Disney star trying to shed the suffocating image of a chirpy teenager.
    — Robin Abcarian, latimes.com, 21 June 2019
  • There’s plenty in common, of course, between the spaces kinksters use for exhibitionism and literal exhibition spaces.
    — Josephine Livingstone, The New Republic, 3 Feb. 2021
  • Then again, the exhibitionism associated with these programs has always required a certain kind of personality in the first place.
    — Brian Lowry, CNN, 15 Apr. 2020
  • How pitifully unprepared poor Mike is for the world — of exhibitionism, prostitution, alcohol, and drugs — in which his brother thrived.
    — Michael Washburn, National Review, 24 Oct. 2021
  • Airline passengers, international tourists and even airplane pilots got more than a bit lively this year too, with fisticuffs, high jinks and underclad exhibitionism breaking out all over the place.
    — CNN, 31 Dec. 2022
  • While taking black American social conditions as his subject, his movies are primarily about his out-of-the-closet exhibitionism.
    — Armond White, National Review, 3 Mar. 2021
  • Babe, that’s cosmic exhibitionism.
    — Dossé-Via Trenou, Refinery29, 12 Oct. 2025
  • If that’s accurate, the trait clearly coexists with exhibitionism and pugnaciousness.
    — Ian Parker, New Yorker, 22 Dec. 2025
  • This cycle of mimetic exhibitionism holds even for metaphysical things like moral values, which in a world colonized by capitalism have become a wearable commodity.
    — Susan Crawford, WIRED, 17 Apr. 2018
  • Yet Park’s gruesome exhibitionism is indifferent to romantic pathos.
    — Armond White, National Review, 28 Dec. 2022
  • The modern technology, with its direct link to social media, amplified certain elements of bravado and exhibitionism that were already part of the performance.
    — Aatish Taseer, New York Times, 9 Nov. 2023
  • This is a movie about the oppositional thrills of secrecy and exhibitionism, the frisson between watching and being watched, and the visceral jolt of giving into an attraction that can no longer be contained.
    — Vulture, 14 Mar. 2022
  • In the end, with the help of surveillance video, Rosales was taken into custody and charged with second-degree murder with a weapon and single counts of molesting a child and lewd and lascivious exhibitionism.
    — Charles Rabin, Miami Herald, 7 June 2024
  • As the pendulum swings toward maximalism, a look characterized by a profusion of pattern and design exhibitionism, the candid expressiveness of nudes seems fresh.
    — Julie Lasky, WSJ, 27 July 2017
  • If her exhibitionism is something new, then she should be evaluated, first by a doctor who specializes in geriatric patients and, if necessary, referred to one who specializes in geriatric psychiatry.
    — Abigail Van Buren, oregonlive, 3 Aug. 2022
  • As biologists have understood since Charles Darwin, such exhibitionism evolves when females choose to mate with males that have the most extravagant appearances and displays—a proxy for fitness.
    — Elizabeth Pennisi, Science | AAAS, 3 Mar. 2021

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