Example Sentences

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The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles.

From Time Magazine Archive

There is none of that veiled pruriency which lurks underneath the more conventionally expressed, but really vicious sentiments that are to be found in too many novels of our own day.

From A History of English Prose Fiction by Tuckerman, Bayard

She has here pursued the analysis of character as an end in itself, for in "The Fatal Secret" there is no hint of disguised scandal, nor any appeal to the pruriency of degenerate readers.

From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by Whicher, George Frisbie

During the present New York theatrical season several plays have been already censored by the authorities, and either been taken off entirely or so altered as to be still within the bounds of legal pruriency.

From The "Goldfish" by Train, Arthur Cheney

The authors who knew they were lying sank almost as low as the nasty-nice purveyors of fake idealism and candied pruriency who fancied they were writing the truth.

From Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise by Phillips, David Graham