How to Use voyeuristic in a Sentence

voyeuristic

adjective
  • Trust us, this game will check all of your voyeuristic boxes.
    Ew Staff, EW.com, 17 Nov. 2022
  • This isn’t some voyeuristic look at their lives or some tabloid version of a story.
    Beatrice Verhoeven, The Hollywood Reporter, 26 Nov. 2022
  • These shows have always been voyeuristic about the other half.
    Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 2022
  • In each documentary-style clip, Keenan takes us along for a voyeuristic day-in-the-life.
    Chris Dong, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
  • Many who may not have seen the photos still got in on the voyeuristic action by joining in the lurid commentary about them.
    Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 26 Oct. 2022
  • But this feels like a new, voyeuristic phenomenon that's here to stay.
    Anny Choi, Vogue, 14 Feb. 2019
  • But this feels like a new, voyeuristic phenomenon that’s here to stay.
    Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2021
  • Critics of the genre argue that true crime is exploitative and voyeuristic, and there’s no doubt that’s part of its allure.
    Lorraine Ali, Los Angeles Times, 16 Mar. 2023
  • The idea is to give visitors a voyeuristic view of the rest of the exhibit, as well as a glimpse of the surveillance that shadows shopping.
    Cathy Horyn, The Cut, 29 May 2018
  • That is likely not true of her second novel, which is set in a big box store, but has none of the voyeuristic distance that the premise might imply.
    Vogue, 25 Apr. 2024
  • Images from the past have taken on a peculiar role in the present, one that feels at once honorable and voyeuristic.
    Lovia Gyarkye, The Hollywood Reporter, 22 June 2023
  • Readers of Bailey’s book will encounter a lot of that sort of thing, to an often voyeuristic degree.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 23 Apr. 2021
  • The benefit for the rest of us is the visual pop on the skyline — a voyeuristic kick made more satisfying by the thought that went into it.
    John King, SFChronicle.com, 12 July 2020
  • For the entire rest of the movie, Soderbergh employs that roving, bobbing and weaving voyeuristic camera’s-eye view.
    Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 20 Jan. 2024
  • But have no fear, Love on the Spectrum follows the cast's journeys to find love with a compassionate rather than voyeuristic eye.
    Emily Smith, EW.com, 19 Oct. 2023
  • These ones just happen to be more uplifting (and a bit less voyeuristic) than those in Criminal.
    Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 June 2018
  • What happens when women deny the voyeuristic gaze so long aimed at them in painting, and instead, turn the gaze inward?
    Brienne Walsh, Forbes, 1 Mar. 2021
  • Others, knowing the story, wanted me to repeat it, the voyeuristic part of them unable to resist.
    Rachel Somerstein, Longreads, 9 Oct. 2019
  • No matter your platform of choice, your voyeuristic habit ties back to consumption.
    Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 14 June 2021
  • For the casual shopper, these sites are a fun jaunt into the market, a voyeuristic way to spend an afternoon.
    Los Angeles Times, 29 Mar. 2022
  • It’s fascinating to browse through them, and a little voyeuristic.
    WIRED, 4 Sep. 2022
  • Truth Be Told at least offers the germ of a good idea, steeped in the eerie, voyeuristic calculus of our cultural obsession with true crime.
    Isaac Feldberg, Fortune, 6 Dec. 2019
  • On the flip side, the titillating content can offer fans a sort of voyeuristic pleasure from the safety of their living rooms.
    Kristin J. Lieb, The Conversation, 17 June 2021
  • My voyeuristic side is dying to get a peek inside the bathroom vanities of random strangers.
    Emily Rekstis, SELF, 23 Feb. 2018
  • Over the last 40-odd years, the world has taken an almost voyeuristic interest in ballroom culture.
    José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue, 28 June 2023
  • But voyeuristic curiosity was the least of their worries.
    Will Evans, Wired, 18 Nov. 2021
  • No one would mistake this for a documentary, and yet, Johnson adopts the voyeuristic cues that give audiences a you-are-there feel.
    Peter Debruge, Variety, 17 Feb. 2023
  • Diop homes in on the connection between the two with an approach that’s intimate but never voyeuristic.
    Hannah Giorgis, The Atlantic, 14 Nov. 2019
  • Peeping on these acts of misplaced affection might seem weird, even voyeuristic.
    Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
  • True crime is a crowded genre with so many cookie-cutter stories exploiting tragedies for voyeuristic films and series.
    Kelly Lawler, USA TODAY, 17 Apr. 2024

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