voyeur

Horrible people acting horribly is always entertaining, to a point—the point being when the viewer recognizes he has become a voyeur.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Apr. 9, 2026

Rather, it’s a clever way for Soderbergh to make the viewer feel like a voyeur, listening in on increasingly intimate conversations that we wouldn’t otherwise be privy to.

From Salon ● Jan. 24, 2025

Branded a "voyeur" by Mourinho after criticising his negative tactics in 2005, Wenger said the Chelsea boss was "out of order" and "disconnected with reality".

From BBC ● Sep. 28, 2024

The late Janet Malcolm memorably proclaimed that a biographer is like a “professional burglar” attempting to break into and enter a life — a busybody and voyeur masked in “an apparatus of scholarship.”

From Washington Post ● Mar. 3, 2023

I feel uncomfortable, as if I were intruding, a voyeur who has slipped into McCandless’s bedroom while he is momentarily away.

From "Into the Wild" by Jon Krakauer

For many of the gawkers and voyeurs, this is pure fantasy, a kind of calming, momentary escape.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 4, 2025

This explains why turnaround time between whatever actions Joan takes in the real world and the heightened, more attractive version served up to Streamberry voyeurs is so short.

From Salon ● Jun. 17, 2023

Secretly filming others has generally resulted in sentences no longer than 10 days, meaning that many Chinese women had "started wearing an additional layer of clothing to deter judgmental comments and would-be voyeurs".

From BBC ● Apr. 19, 2023

Ghosts are the ultimate voyeurs — writers in their ectoplasmic state.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2022

All those people out there in the shadows, watching the actors in the light, all those silent voyeurs as Bruce calls them.

From No Great Magic by Fritz Leiber