prurience
Example Sentences
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“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
Along with that has come prurience, the hyper-dramatization of petty gripes, the disappearance of decorum.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2018
Representations of anorexia are a mix of prurience, spectacle and aspiration.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 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 Oscar Wilde
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