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

That amazing mixture of sententious moralities, of prurience, and of mawkish sentiment, became the rage of the Town.

From Henry Fielding: a Memoir by Godden, G. M.