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Definition of fetish:

  • (noun) a form of sexual desire in which gratification depends to an abnormal degree on some object or item of clothing or part of the body;
  • (noun) a charm superstitiously believed to embody magical powers
  • (noun) excessive or irrational devotion to some activity; "made a fetish of cleanliness"

Sentence Examples:

Fetish worship!

Legality was made a fetish.

He is papa's particular fetish.

Turtle's fetish was democratic popularity.

You make an absolute fetish of him.

Caesar people all come to snake fetish.

Luke Jones reasonable prices are a fetish.

The wonderful thing becomes a fetish.

Liberty had always been her fetish.

Their fetish is deadly and irresistible.

The boys also promised their "fetishes."

That is the great fetish tree.

Art has never been their fetish.

"Art is not a fetish," he urged.

"You people have fetishes," stormed the General.

They worshiped human nature as a fetish.

He did not make fetishes of them.

Possibly it has been some cherished fetish.

Next to woman, nature is his fetish.

Character is a superstition, a wretched fetish.

Kill children and women to make fetish.

In those days precedent was a fetish.

"Tell us about fetishes," said the girl's voice.

For good health is being made a fetish.

That is the vice of worshiping a fetish.

On one side was his fetish or idol house.

Scientific integrity was a fetish with him.

It's just that fetish you call law.

This fetish custom assumes very varied forms.

There are big fetishes and little ones.

The Bible has become an idol, a fetish.

It was a kind of fetish with her.

Not believe much in San Domingo about fetish.

Democracy becomes a kind of fetish to him.

With the true Briton convention is a fetish.

Oh dear, no; originality is my favorite fetish.

It was evidently a fetish in human shape.

It isn't fetish: it's simply because I won't.

I was a fetish, very well looked after.

Are any fetishes peculiar to particular families or castes?

It had become the great fetish of his imagination.

Bach is one of the great fetishes in music.

A fetish has power when it is believed in.

They are "sacred things," but not exactly fetishes.

The latter made straight for the fetish hut.

For those two fetishes everything must be sacrificed.

Reliability and hard work were his two fetishes.

Some make a fetish of success and thus lose out.

The cold bath must not be made a fetish.

The white flag is becoming a kind of fetish.

Staying alive had now become a fetish with Jon.

Without my Fetish I should have been left behind.

Fetish then steps forward and forbids further search.

Many men were inclined to make a fetish of mathematics.

A curious people, given to fetish worship in peculiar forms.

Its wood is the source of fire, itself a fetish.

Here was a man who made a fetish of honesty.

The Almost-men seemed to make a fetish of their machines.

You must remember that property is a fetish in America.

That miserable fetish has been worshiped much too long.

A remarkable shrine with fetish idols was also discovered.

A belief in this has come to be a popular fetish.

To him, ghosts were factors, and fetishes potent possibilities.

Just at that moment she was without a fetish.

Among cult objects the fetish occupies a low place.

We have been brought up in a kind of fetish worship.

Physical strength and courage at this time were his fetish.

Party under increasing civilization is a factor, not a fetish.

His fetish is good taste, or what he thinks such.

The girl was too honest for such fetish faith.

Thursday was set apart for the worship of fetishes.

The only occult power at man's disposal was fetish.

All the people were heathens, and prayed to the fetish.

Haven't you lost your faith in the old fetish yet?

And yet their Fetishes leave the people in great misery.

Other fetish emblems are seen on the huts, and elsewhere.

To call objects of this kind "fetishes" helps us nothing.

Must be a pretty important fetish on their world, eh?

They must apparently have a fetish of their own sex.

We had made a fetish of the trophy so hardly won.

They evidently consider it a fetish or charm of some sort.

His imagination ran riot, till it became to him a fetish.

Even in Cornwall he was on the lookout for his fetish.

Thousands of fools are kneeling before the fetish of public opinion.

I feel that our fetish is safe for three centuries yet.

Bad men there; steal children away, make sacrifice to fetish.

Remember I possess the most powerful fetish in the world.

The death-drum beats, and to the fetish we offer sacrifice.

The stone was something exceptional in fetishes, needing delicate handling.

He bowed again as if saluting a fetish, and again and again.

This worship of the fetish was the worship of truth.

I told you my special and particular fetish was originality.

This was the container of their magic power, or fetish.

The image which might have stimulated reverence had become a fetish.

His other charm or fetish is also secured about his person.

It is respected, honored, loved; but it is no longer a fetish.

Your devotion to college and to college responsibilities amounts to a fetish.

This is a fetish which ought long ago to have been burned.

It was a large place, with a very holy fetish tree.

It has been called a survival from the early fetish worship.