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
  • These shows have always been voyeuristic about the other half.
    — Mikey O'Connell, The Hollywood Reporter, 29 Apr. 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
  • More details about that would feel perhaps voyeuristic.
    — Roxana Hadadi, Vulture, 17 Oct. 2025
  • But this feels like a new, voyeuristic phenomenon that’s here to stay.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2021
  • But this feels like a new, voyeuristic phenomenon that's here to stay.
    — Madeline Fass, Vogue, 25 Jan. 2021
  • No matter your platform of choice, your voyeuristic habit ties back to consumption.
    — Eliza Huber, refinery29.com, 14 June 2021
  • At its worst, this sort of journalism can feel voyeuristic, or even exploitative.
    — Stephanie Hanes, Christian Science Monitor, 27 Jan. 2025
  • Tell me more about the appeal of the kind of voyeuristic aspect of being able to see the lives of these people.
    — Nick Vivarelli, Variety, 10 June 2026
  • Peeping on these acts of misplaced affection might seem weird, even voyeuristic.
    — Katherine J. Wu, The Atlantic, 17 May 2022
  • In each documentary-style clip, Keenan takes us along for a voyeuristic day-in-the-life.
    — Chris Dong, Washington Post, 19 June 2024
  • But the framing of the piece skews moralizing and voyeuristic.
    — Rosa Lyster, Harpers Magazine, 30 Dec. 2025
  • Slanted Floors is, by nature, voyeuristic.
    — Jason P. Frank, Vulture, 18 June 2026
  • It was scripted as being down a long hallway from a distance, from a voyeuristic standpoint.
    — Jackie Strause, The Hollywood Reporter, 25 Nov. 2024
  • Ko There is nothing to be done regarding the voyeuristic nature of our species.
    — Miles Klee, Rolling Stone, 29 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
  • For some, watching the film might seem like a gruesome voyeuristic act, even if the scene in question is not a part of the final cut.
    — Jane Onyanga-Omara, USA Today, 3 May 2025
  • 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
  • My voyeuristic side is dying to get a peek inside the bathroom vanities of random strangers.
    — Emily Rekstis, SELF, 23 Feb. 2018
  • 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
  • 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
  • In the past, her songs were so littered with personal details that listening felt voyeuristic.
    — Madison Bloom, Pitchfork, 31 Mar. 2026
  • These ones just happen to be more uplifting (and a bit less voyeuristic) than those in Criminal.
    — Eliana Dockterman, Time, 5 June 2018
  • 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
  • This one-on-one exchange around food with strategic mood lighting has a casualness that brings with it a voyeuristic feel.
    — Lily Moayeri, SPIN, 13 Feb. 2025
  • It’s seen slowly, through her love and connection with her son, as opposed to the camera being voyeuristic.
    — Jessica Zack, San Francisco Chronicle, 21 Oct. 2022
  • Yet while some found his work illuminating and provocative, others saw it as voyeuristic.
    — Anna Cafolla, Vogue, 7 Dec. 2025
  • 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, 29 July 2025
  • There's a voyeuristic, love-to-hate quality to this genre that keeps us thoroughly entertained.
    — Christopher Ros, Glamour, 7 July 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

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