pruriency
Example Sentences
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The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles.
From Time Magazine Archive
An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency.
From The Oyster by Peer
He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by William A. (William Alfred) Quayle
He must somehow make his novel interesting to his readers, just as a man is expected to make himself interesting in social conversation, without recourse to pruriency or obscenity.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
It is the expression of our essential immorality—using that word in its conventional sense—having its roots deep down in pruriency, hypocrisy and ignorance.
From Mother Earth, Vol. 1 No. 1, March 1906 by Emma Goldman
