prurience
Example Sentences
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They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021
“The chief charges against Koestenbaum are frivolity, prurience and self-indulgence,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
From New York Times • May 14, 2020
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
Representations of anorexia are a mix of prurience, spectacle and aspiration.
From The Guardian • Jul. 12, 2017
Virtue or vice, heroics hobnobbing with the basest prurience, there was no pill that it would not swallow if it were gilded with sonorous rhymes and redundant words.
From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert
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