prurience in the Oxford-Hachette French Dictionary

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prurience in the PONS Dictionary

Translations for prurience in the English»French Dictionary

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Other critics called his success undeserved and attributed it to prurience on the part of his readers.
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What passes for the public interest in those newsrooms is, for the most part, simple prurience.
www.thestar.com
The latter production was described many years later as a seductive blend of serious documentary, lyrical effusion and unbridled prurience.
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Yet there's little prurience, and less shock, in his curiously matter-of-fact, yet compelling, account of a wasted decade.
www.winnipegfreepress.com
She railed against prurience, poor eating habits and vanity.
news.nationalpost.com
It can be argued that what protected these series from sensationalism or prurience is distance of time and perspective.
www.thecourier.co.uk
The casualness of the liaison here is the nub of our discomfort and perhaps drives the prurience.
www.stuff.co.nz
When people accused him of prurience, he responded that the crimes of war must be documented and disseminated.
www.telegraph.co.uk
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
Gossip's brush -- being the tools of the trade: silliness, prurience and sedition.
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