voyeur

Example Sentences

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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

An audience is a voyeur who exists beyond the boundaries of time.

From Los Angeles Times • Jan. 23, 2025

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 noticed that the inhabitants of this level were mostly couples and I felt something of a voyeur as I passed from table to table.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss