You would appear to be ... just a wee bit ... pruriently obsessive about this. From Wordnik.com. [Gordon Brown, Charlie Whelan and Me] Reference
It may seem fascinating to pruriently revel in the excesses of a once-pretty superstar. From Wordnik.com. [Alexandra Juhasz: Casey Affleck's Biggest Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin's Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes?] Reference
It also surprises me that you are so reactively persistently and even pruriently homophobic. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
The tale is told largely by middle-aged women who are at turns clinically matter-of-fact about and pruriently fascinated by what happened in Conyers. From Wordnik.com. [Are You There God? It's Me, Monica] Reference
Never before has it been the subject of such alarm and horror, and never before has it been an issue so repeatedly and pruriently discussed in the media. From Wordnik.com. [Banned Books Week Redux « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference
They're all scumbags, but the sanctimonious "journalist" pruriently going over every tittilating detail of the emails for their TV freakshow is no better. From Wordnik.com. [Hullabaloo] Reference
Contrary to Matthee's claim that other media avoided it, he said "most of the media took up our story and were pruriently running with it whilst condemning us.". From Wordnik.com. [ANC Daily News Briefing] Reference
While it may initially seem fascinating to pruriently revel in the paunchy, drug-addled behind-the-scenes excesses of a once-pretty superstar, we've seen this many times before. From Wordnik.com. [Alexandra Juhasz: Casey Affleck's Biggest Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin's Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes?] Reference
While it may initially seem fascinating to pruriently revel in the paunchy, drug-addled behind-the-scenes excesses of a once pretty superstar, we've seen this many times before. From Wordnik.com. [Alexandra Juhasz: Casey Affleck's Biggest Reveal: Fake Doc, Joaquin's Tummy or Tranny Prostitutes?] Reference
He is always the hero, and often the victim, of his own imagination; like a star actor, he cannot bear to be outshone; he is morbidly, almost pruriently, conscious of the effect he is producing. From Wordnik.com. [William of Germany] Reference
The Roman officers to whom Enobarbus describes the wondrous variety of Cleopatra are bedazzled by what they hear, and pruriently curious (as are we); they long to see, even if they know they must not touch. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare]
By means whereof she was changed from contagious loue, and striking with hir stolen regards (enuying the same) she turned it vpon me, so as I perceiued an incensing fire pruriently diffusing it selfe through my inward parts and hollow veines: and during the contemplate beholding of hir most rare and excellent beautie, a mellifluous delight and sweete solace constrained me thereunto. From Wordnik.com. [Hypnerotomachia The Strife of Loue in a Dreame] Reference
The Spitzner collection was a famous grouping of popular anatomical waxes exhibited around European fairgrounds in the 19th Century; The Spitzner models, and other popular anatomical exhibitions, were pruriently lowbrow, ostensibly educational exhibitions of wax anatomical models, with an emphasis on depictions of the unclothed female form, reproductive organs, and body parts ravaged by a variety of sexually transmitted diseases. From Wordnik.com. [Musée de la Médecine, Brussels, Belgium] Reference
They would not have helped, but paedophiles are pruriently interested in children. From Wordnik.com. [Home | Mail Online] Reference
There have been few politicians to whom we are so pruriently attracted - the current president and our own Iron Lady notwithstanding. From Wordnik.com. [Blogposts | guardian.co.uk] Reference
Submit is not interested in the trappings of Graham's superficial bounty, while Graham is pruriently interested in what lies inside Submit's dress, as well as her mind and heart. From Wordnik.com. [Dear Author: Romance Novel Reviews, Industry News, and Commentary] Reference
So great is their hope of relief from that meaningless and deadening submission to unproductive reproduction, that only a society pruriently devoted to hypocrisy could refuse to listen to the voices of these mothers. From Wordnik.com. [The Pivot of Civilization] Reference
Examine the man who lives in misery because he does not shine above other men; who goes about producing himself, pruriently anxious about his gifts and claims; struggling to force everybody, as it were begging everybody for God's sake, to acknowledge him a great man, and set him over the heads of men!. From Wordnik.com. [Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History] Reference
(Or, for the less pruriently-oriented, the "I'd rather be looking at pictures of kittens" test. From Wordnik.com. [The Toad Stool by Alan Wolk] Reference
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