How to Use oversexed in a Sentence

oversexed

adjective
  • Elvis balked about recording the oversexed song.
    — Kim Willis, USA Today, 20 Sep. 2025
  • Carpenter, too, somehow seems both sexless and oversexed.
    — Amanda Petrusich, New Yorker, 2 Sep. 2025
  • There’s something about this oversexed, dead-eyed chaos agent of a narrative persona working through the most toxic relationships that compels me endlessly.
    — Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, Vulture, 1 Dec. 2025
  • Victorian mores determined that brown men were too feminine and brown women too masculine, and the group as a whole was oversexed and in need of population control.
    — Supriya Ganesh, Vulture, 15 Apr. 2026
  • And Matt Bromley, the oversexed and undershamed executive of Pose.
    — Megan Garber, The Atlantic, 12 Feb. 2026
  • On the left, Anderson trots out stock characters — the oversexed Black woman revolutionary, Leo’s cuckolded white stoner, doctrinaire newcomers — from a Bob Hope skit about hippies.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Los Angeles Times, 17 Mar. 2026
  • On the left, Anderson trots out stock characters — the oversexed Black woman revolutionary, Leo's cuckolded white stoner, doctrinaire newcomers — from a Bob Hope skit about hippies.
    — Gustavo Arellano, Houston Chronicle, 25 Mar. 2026
  • Behold the wholesome, impressionable child star from Pennsylvania who went from placing third in The Next Miley Cyrus Project in 2008 to molding art and body to meet an oversexed societal mandate.
    — Craig Jenkins, Vulture, 3 Sep. 2025
  • Edward’s younger brother Robert (Lukas Gage) spends his days doing little but pining most inappropriately for the attentions of eldest sibling Jack (Jamie Bell), while the stunted, oversexed energy of lone sister Anna (Riley Keough) spits in all directions.
    — Guy Lodge, Variety, 14 Feb. 2026

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