prurience
Example Sentences
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And “Polylogues” is a curious, compassionate portal into a topic we most often see treated with prurience.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021
And that means that I often am uncertain of my place in the uncomfortable space between honest curiosity and creepy prurience.
From Salon • Feb. 2, 2019
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017
But the people glued to them are driven less by sexual prurience than by a search for “inspiration and the beauty of the accomplishments of the athletes in them.”
From Washington Post • Jul. 29, 2016
Hence the watery pimples in itch are invariably those that produce the most intolerable prurience.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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