prurience
Example Sentences
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There’s no hysteria or prurience in her writing; she approaches her history with precision, never sentimentality.
From New York Times • Apr. 24, 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
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017
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 Burton, Richard Francis, Sir
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