prurience
Example Sentences
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“The chief charges against Koestenbaum are frivolity, prurience and self-indulgence,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes.
From New York Times ● May 14, 2020
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
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
In recent years it has gathered steam as the Farrows have restated their claims, and as social media has facilitated wider debate – or stoked flames of prurience disguised as self-righteousness.
From The Guardian ● May 13, 2016
His enormous popularity, the widest in the world of letters, owes absolutely nothing to prurience or curiosity.
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
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