prurience
- a word derived from prurient.
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
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
But the people glued to them are driven less by sexual prurience than by a search for “inspiration and the beauty of the accomplishments of the athletes in them.”
From Washington Post ● Jul. 29, 2016
They turn faith into pietism, sanctity into morality, and righteousness into a reeking prurience.
From Suspended Judgments Essays on Books and Sensations by Powys, John Cowper
