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
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 Phelps, William Lyon
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 Goldman, Emma
Here is something to tell them that does not excite pruriency, that does set the full state of the case before them and represents probably all that can be said with assurance and safety.
From Education: How Old The New by Walsh, James J.
He hates pruriency, making protest against it with a voice like the clangor of angry bells.
From A Hero and Some Other Folks by Quayle, William A. (William Alfred)
