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
Along with that has come prurience, the hyper-dramatization of petty gripes, the disappearance of decorum.
From Washington Post ● Jun. 7, 2018
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
They are too often confused in England now, and though our modern Puritans cannot destroy a beautiful thing, yet, by means of their extraordinary prurience, they can almost taint beauty for a moment.
From Intentions by Oscar Wilde
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