Example Sentences

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“The chief charges against Koestenbaum are frivolity, prurience and self-indulgence,” our critic Parul Sehgal writes.

From New York Times • May 14, 2020

I understand people’s queasiness about the current popularity of true-crime documentaries and podcasts; no question, some err on the side of prurience.

From The Guardian • Jun. 8, 2019

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

Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 22, 2017

Virtue or vice, heroics hobnobbing with the basest prurience, there was no pill that it would not swallow if it were gilded with sonorous rhymes and redundant words.

From Jean Christophe: in Paris The Market-Place, Antoinette, the House by Cannan, Gilbert