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
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
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
This literature of a sunless Decadence has spread widely, by virtue of its own uncleanness, and its leading characteristics are gloom, ugliness, prurience, preachiness, and weedy flabbiness of style.
From The Idler Magazine, Volume III., July 1893 An Illustrated Monthly by Various
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