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
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
The cast says and sings such lines with a shiny, arch-free cheer that repels prurience and captures the breakneck giddiness of an age when the Algonquin Hotel was the epicenter of worldly wit.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017
One development is found in the Puritan prurience which produced Tolstoi's "Kreutzer Sonata" and Mr. Stead's famous outbursts.
From Oscar Wilde: Art and Morality A Defence of "The Picture of Dorian Gray" by Mason, Stuart
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