Translations for „prurience“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

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

prurience

похотли́вость f

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English

Some parts of the media handled the story with the usual mixture of prurience and hypocritical morality.

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We watched with a mixture of prurience and pity.

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

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

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The casualness of the liaison here is the nub of our discomfort and perhaps drives the prurience.

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

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

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How do we do that without falseness, self-congratulation, prurience or melodrama?

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Gossip's brush -- being the tools of the trade: silliness, prurience and sedition.

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