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Recent Examples of prurience
Their psychic life is not pried with pity or prurience; their paralysis or tragic humility is not mined for metaphor.
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 16 July 2024
These actors’ television fame adds a whisper of remembered prurience here, a flavor of kitsch there.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
But there is more than prurience or even provocation at work here.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
Ants Tammik’s camerawork is similarly inspired, especially in the framing of the women’s bodies which are displayed without prudery but also without prurience, and usually only partially — backs, breasts, bellies, chins propped on knees.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Mar. 2023
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 16 July 2024
These actors’ television fame adds a whisper of remembered prurience here, a flavor of kitsch there.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 20 Dec. 2023
But there is more than prurience or even provocation at work here.
—Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times, 1 Sep. 2023
Ants Tammik’s camerawork is similarly inspired, especially in the framing of the women’s bodies which are displayed without prudery but also without prurience, and usually only partially — backs, breasts, bellies, chins propped on knees.
—Jessica Kiang, Variety, 19 Mar. 2023
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for prurience
lechery
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Mingus agreed to join him for moral support, but when Albee, whether through nonchalance or lechery, answered the door wearing nothing but a beltless bathrobe, Mingus balked and hightailed it out of there.—
Literary Hub,
Literary Hub,
12 Dec. 2025
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Vandalism and lechery are among the milder affronts that occur on Winifred’s watch, and her narration, though sombre, sparkles.—
The New Yorker,
The New Yorker,
24 Feb. 2025
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“Prurience.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/prurience. Accessed 28 Jan. 2026.
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