prurience , also: pruriency

But in this show prurience is no match for religious devotion.

It also feeds a prurience which you, like all the press, ultimately make money from.

You know that prudery is only the other side of prurience.

This culture of openness seems to be slipping into prurience.

It was not prurience, nor even simple curiosity, and yet he often found himself watching them.

Well, now that our prurience has been satisfied, how did the work go?"

The second thing is the difficulty of insulating yourself from prurience.

American culture has been getting steadily more obsessed with fame and prurience.

But the hour focused mostly on prurience or, as Hamlet would say, country matters.

I can hear my own prurience leaking out of my voice.

Do not count this as prurience, or another example of plummeting American values.

Prurience aside, our ancestors' antics are of no particular note.

This is not only prurience, but also a kind of biographical superstition.

There may be more to the married crowd's monitoring of their single friends than just prurience (though it's certainly that).

"Prurience aside, the rays they use can't be very good for us!"

She pursed her lips in a smile loaded with prurience.

It was not prurience she felt from him, exactly, at least not in the sense of simple lust.

In the first place, there's straightforward prurience: the suffering of others holds a fascination.

Hence the reliance on such notions as "prurience" and "community standards."

It goes back to a prurience that has created hipster interest in black urban degradation.

Audience members who turn out for the promised package of prestige and prurience probably should not be disappointed.

There was no prurience wrapped in the question.

With morbid prurience, we demand proof of how and where they met their ends.

These include: how can you separate "proper" investigative journalism from "prurience"?