prurience in the PONS Dictionary

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When people accused him of prurience, he responded that the crimes of war must be documented and disseminated.
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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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But 2016, observers argue, is vindictiveness and prurience on steroids.
www.freemalaysiatoday.com
If his primary interest was prurience he would only need one woman on the page (or maybe two).
comicsalliance.com
The prurience is also what prevents people from expecting those strip club owners from treating dancers like human beings.
www.macleans.ca
We watched with a mixture of prurience and pity.
www.nybooks.com
She railed against prurience, poor eating habits and vanity.
news.nationalpost.com
What passes for the public interest in those newsrooms is, for the most part, simple prurience.
www.thestar.com
Curators and editors will frequently censor these images to avoid charges of prurience, shock tactics or invasion of privacy.
en.wikipedia.org
The latter production was described many years later as a seductive blend of serious documentary, lyrical effusion and unbridled prurience.
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