prurience
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“Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy,” by New York Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, may ultimately test the prurience of an unsuspecting readership.
From Washington Post • Feb. 12, 2023
I understand people’s queasiness about the current popularity of true-crime documentaries and podcasts; no question, some err on the side of prurience.
From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2019
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
A year and a half ago, however, for the 2016 edition, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the calendar’s raison d’être took a sharp turn from prurience to pride.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2017
They are too often confused in England now, and though our modern Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment.
From Intentions by Wilde, Oscar
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