prurience
Example Sentences
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And “Polylogues” is a curious, compassionate portal into a topic we most often see treated with prurience.
From New York Times • Sep. 22, 2021
They touch on something dreadful, but they offer an alternative to photography’s tendency toward macabre prurience.
From Washington Post • Apr. 20, 2021
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
His savage and unblushing violence or vehemence of satire has no taint of gloating or morbid prurience in the turbid flow of its fitful and furious rhetoric.
From The Age of Shakespeare by Swinburne, Algernon Charles
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