voyeur

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They accused him of planning and carrying out the September 11th events as a precursor to invasion of Iraq and Afghanistan and acted as though he watched -- voyeur-like -- while torture was taking place.

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  1. noun A person who derives sexual gratification from observing the naked bodies or sexual acts of others, especially from a secret vantage point.
  2. noun An obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects.

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  • It was at that point that he had felt intensely ashamed, felt himself to be a voyeur, an intruder, an invader of privacy. —  Martha Grimes - The Old Silent
  • It makes relationships difficult; he's not by nature a voyeur, and privacy as a one-way barrier doesn't seem to work for him. —  F ;SF; - vol 096 issue 04 - April 1999
  • She was the one standing here gaping at him like some kind of voyeur, speculating on the intimate parts of his body, reacting like a schoolgirl to the parts she could see. —  ClayYeager'sRedemption
  • I felt uncomfortable, like a voyeur, a witness to something fundamentally private. —  Steven Gould - Wildside (v2.1)
  • It made him feel like a voyeur — not so much because he'd done it, but because he wanted to crawl into her mind like a badger into its hole and stay there The General spared a brief grin. —  Hunter,Healer[SequeltoTheSociety]
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  1. French, from Old French, one who lies in wait, from voir, to see, from Latin vidēre, to see; see weid- in Indo-European roots.
 

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