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  • adjective of, relating to, or derived from voyeurism or a voyeur

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  • adjective of or relating to voyeurs or voyeurism

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Examples

  • You know…I mean I’m just a technical guy, but doesn’t the word voyeuristic come to mind?

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • You know…I mean I’m just a technical guy, but doesn’t the word voyeuristic come to mind?

    Orbit John J. Nance 2006

  • On the one hand, it really isn't "news" in any meaningful way, and can pretty accurately be labelled voyeuristic, objectifying, "Othering", etc, etc.

    Disability in China Kay Olson 2007

  • While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers.

    Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In! 2010

  • While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers.

    Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In! 2010

  • While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers.

    Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In! 2010

  • While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers.

    Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In! 2010

  • While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers.

    Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In! 2010

  • While they are small in numbers relative to the whole population, with the help of wealthy patrons like the Koch Brothers and Rupert Murdoch, who gives both financial aid and a political public address system to blare their message, they have whipped up public frustration with "the system" to give elements of the disgruntled silent majority the same kind of voyeuristic vent that they get from watching Simon Cowell rip into aspiring singers.

    Brian Ross: Throw the Bums In! 2010

  • This is also, unfortunately, a quintessentially human thing: to expect others to fail spectacularly before your eyes in order to fulfill a kind of voyeuristic pleasure in their incompetence, to laugh at the delusional aspirants of greatness who are too foolish to recognize their own personal shortcomings.

    I Dreamed A Dream « Unambiguously Ambidextrous 2009

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