prurience
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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
A year and a half ago, however, for the 2016 edition, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the calendar’s raison d’être took a sharp turn from prurience to pride.
From New York Times • Jul. 20, 2017
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017
Gore Vidal maintained that this unconscionable prurience accounted for Hearst’s rage against the movie, and a significant reason he did everything he could to destroy the film’s chances of ever opening.
From The Guardian • May 27, 2016
His enormous popularity, the widest in the world of letters, owes absolutely nothing to prurience or curiosity.
From Essays in Little by Lang, Andrew
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