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
By its suggestion of horror it provoked that hunger for details which, in its acute stage, becomes pruriency.
From The Hunted Outlaw or, Donald Morrison, the Canadian Rob Roy by Anonymous
There is none of that veiled pruriency which lurks underneath the more conventionally expressed, but really vicious sentiments that are to be found in too many novels of our own day.
From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard
During the present New York theatrical season several plays have been already censored by the authorities, and either been taken off entirely or so altered as to be still within the bounds of legal pruriency.
From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney
An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency.
From The Oyster by Peer
