Definition of voyeur in English:

noun

• 1A person who gains sexual pleasure from watching others when they are naked or engaged in sexual activity.

  ‘he stood transfixed, a voyeur feasting on the swell of her buttocks’

  More example sentences

  • ‘Brendan Fletcher plays a teen voyeur who likes to spy on gay men having sex in a park.’
  • ‘Porn voyeurs are in for a treat next month, with the promise of a record-breaking online orgy.’
  • ‘From being the object of voyeurism Magda becomes the voyeur, and from being the loved one turns into the lover.’
  • ‘Plus, you can sit in the back and kiss your boyfriend all you want without having to worry about Peeping Toms or voyeurs.’
  • ‘Did they feel he was a voyeur, peeking in windows, watching their naked bodies, making them feel ashamed?’
  • ‘Like peep-show voyeurs, they want to read erotic materials and repudiate any interest in them at the same time.’
  • ‘Curiosity is their driving instinct, so these flitting voyeurs get their highs from watching rather than doing.’
  • ‘Is photography what happens when a voyeur meets a narcissist?’
  • ‘And for the voyeurs, Tessa's steamy shower scene is shocking for TV fare.’
  • ‘The advance of new technology, and in particular the use of cellphone cameras, has enhanced the ability of voyeurs to engage in such recordings.’
  • ‘Such explicitness forces us into the role of voyeurs, and makes engagement with the paintings so fraught we loose sight of their symbolic dimension.’
  • ‘Pornographers and voyeurs communicate with each other and learn how to articulate fluctuating sexual scenarios and pornographic roles.’
  • ‘The emphasis on celluloid as the medium for voyeurs, pornographers and for exploitation rings true with other more high minded explorations of the moving image.’
  • ‘In slightly different circumstances, the scene would be enough to sweep even the most demanding of voyeurs from impotence to premature ejaculation in a few hazy moments.’
  • ‘Jefferson is an obsessive voyeur, through a carefully concealed camera he watches the women at home, cooking, bathing, entertaining guests and making love.’
  • ‘Now, if you've suddenly turned into a voyeur, well, your sex life is your own business, not mine, and I don't have any right to demand an explanation of what turns you on these days.’
  • ‘During this sequence, Glen, and Wood's alter ego, Lugosi, become male voyeurs who are both disgusted, yet strangely excited, by the activities of the women.’
  • ‘The king is the cause of his own jealousy because he is a voyeur, at once aroused and made jealous by watching the object of his desire perform an act of seduction at his bidding.’
  • ‘‘Dave has told me he often feels like a voyeur watching the intimate dance unfold or a puppet master manipulating us with his guitar strings,’ says Webb.’
  • ‘After the car keys parties of the 1970s, hedonists are nowadays more likely to opt for pursuits such as ‘dogging’ - having sex in car parks while voyeurs watch.’

  1. 1.1A person who enjoys seeing the pain or distress of others.
     ‘a voyeur of death’
     ‘murder trials make us voyeurs’
     More example sentences

     • ‘We watch like greedy voyeurs as he walks away from the world and its troubles.’
     • ‘I feel like a reluctant voyeur, watching a flower die in heart wrenching, time lapse photography.’
     • ‘Obviously many men did not survive the crashes I witnessed, and I felt a bit like a voyeur watching it on screen.’
     • ‘This device also draws in listeners in that it asks us to be more than voyeurs; it asks us to be activists who save others from lynching.’
     • ‘He believes Americans watch not as voyeurs but as crusaders: We want to see justice done and evildoers vanquished.’
     • ‘The fact that the economy is stuck in neutral and that good jobs are hard to find makes the overcompensated especially tempting targets for TV voyeurs.’
     • ‘Through these responses, viewers are checking their own desire to participate as voyeurs and to be entertained by the house guests' interpersonal dramas.’
     • ‘The domestication of the nation's tastes has become so banal that we are content to watch, as voyeurs, a middle-aged woman on Changing Rooms cry for joy at her new dining room.’
     • ‘On first viewing I remember feeling like a voyeur who should not be watching the anguish of a family under such strain and shock, all the while trying to maintain its coherence and dignity.’
     • ‘But the truth can be told with powerful understatement as well, in words and visual images that create empathy without turning the American people into paranoid voyeurs.’
     • ‘This is not a film where we find ourselves empathizing with the heroine; instead, we are dispassionate voyeurs, observing her actions and unraveling clues about who she was, is, and will be.’
     • ‘Though I am not a voyeur, I do take some enjoyment from watching these idling drivers punch their car radios, and, if their windows are down, listening to the cacophony of sounds that emit from their sound systems.’
     • ‘Anna Nolan, 29, is one of ten strangers who has been locked in a house complete with 25 cameras and dozens of microphones so that Net voyeurs can satisfy their craving for warts-and-all people gazing.’
     • ‘The Guardian accused its competitors of pandering to a voyeur instinct by prying into Blunkett's life.’
     • ‘Taken out of the theatre, the 13 spectators become voyeurs of a slightly dated reality show.’
     • ‘We have become voyeurs getting our kicks out of other people's fun and misfortunes.’