voyeur
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Horrible people acting horribly is always entertaining, to a point—the point being when the viewer recognizes he has become a voyeur.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026
I’m not particularly good at TikTok as a human, or as a comedian, but I love being on TikTok as a voyeur.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 19, 2025
Rather, it’s a clever way for Soderbergh to make the viewer feel like a voyeur, listening in on increasingly intimate conversations that we wouldn’t otherwise be privy to.
From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025
The late Janet Malcolm memorably proclaimed that a biographer is like a “professional burglar” attempting to break into and enter a life — a busybody and voyeur masked in “an apparatus of scholarship.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023
I noticed that the inhabitants of this level were mostly couples and I felt something of a voyeur as I passed from table to table.
From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss
For many of the gawkers and voyeurs, this is pure fantasy, a kind of calming, momentary escape.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025
As "voyeurs of morality", she adds, "we can't wait for the nice person to do something unexpectedly".
From BBC ● Oct. 10, 2025
This explains why turnaround time between whatever actions Joan takes in the real world and the heightened, more attractive version served up to Streamberry voyeurs is so short.
From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023
Ghosts are the ultimate voyeurs — writers in their ectoplasmic state.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022
All those people out there in the shadows, watching the actors in the light, all those silent voyeurs as Bruce calls them.
From No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber
