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
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
Hippocrates mentions a leprosy that usually occasioned a prurience before rain.
From Curiosities of Medical Experience by Millingen, J. G. (John Gideon)
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