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
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
Representations of anorexia are a mix of prurience, spectacle and aspiration.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 12, 2017
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 J. G. (John Gideon) Millingen
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