prurience
Example Sentences
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They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 20, 2021
“The chief charges against Koestenbaum are frivolity, prurience and self-indulgence,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
I understand people’s queasiness about the current popularity of true-crime documentaries and podcasts; no question, some err on the side of prurience.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 8, 2019
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
The language is, however, more frequently coarse than loose, and smacks more of the childish plainness with which high and low talk in the family circles from Tangier to Malayia, than of prurience or suggestiveness.
From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 16 by Sir Richard Francis Burton
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