prurience
Example Sentences
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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
The cast says and sings such lines with a shiny, arch-free cheer that repels prurience and captures the breakneck giddiness of an age when the Algonquin Hotel was the epicenter of worldly wit.
From New York Times • Mar. 23, 2017
That amazing mixture of sententious moralities, of prurience, and of mawkish sentiment, became the rage of the Town.
From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.
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