prurience in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for prurience in the English»Bulgarian Dictionary

prurience [ˈprʊərɪəns, Am ˈprʊrɪ-] N no pl pej form

prurience

похотливост f без мн

Monolingual examples (not verified by PONS Editors)

English

When people accused him of prurience, he responded that the crimes of war must be documented and disseminated.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Prurience is deemed unbecoming by a curatorial team who treat their subject with utmost reverence.

www.telegraph.co.uk

Her nakedness is treated neither with prurience nor condescension.

www.theatlantic.com

Meanwhile, his distaste for confrontation has blurred his judgment to the point that he can no longer distinguish between prurience and justifiable inquiry.

www.independent.ie

The prurience is also what prevents people from expecting those strip club owners from treating dancers like human beings.

www.macleans.ca

If his primary interest was prurience he would only need one woman on the page (or maybe two).

comicsalliance.com

And it is not just prurience that is fed by this voyeurisim.

ottawacitizen.com

It just speaks to a broader freedom that people feel like they have - a prurience.

entertainment.ie

Curators and editors will frequently censor these images to avoid charges of prurience, shock tactics or invasion of privacy.

en.wikipedia.org

What passes for the public interest in those newsrooms is, for the most part, simple prurience.

www.thestar.com