prurient

Example Sentences

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It’ll be purely sensational, purely prurient, even as it coldly rips through reputations, jobs and legacies.

From The Wall Street Journal • Nov. 20, 2025

Neither satisfying the public’s prurient curiosity, nor allowing Epstein conspiracy theorists to second-guess prosecutorial judgment, nor placating a president’s political base is a valid reason to break the normal rule.

From Slate • Jul. 21, 2025

More importantly, the political relevance of these two stories can't really be measured by prurient interest.

From Salon • Jun. 7, 2024

The trial’s first witness, former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker, testified last week about his cooperation with Trump in 2016 to “catch and kill” prurient Trump stories before that year’s election.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 28, 2024

How full, and yet how empty for a prurient curiosity, and how reverently reticent even while they are triumphantly confident!

From The Expositor's Bible: Colossians and Philemon by Maclaren, Alexander