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Meanings of prurient in English

Characterized by lust.

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Usage of prurient in English
1
Ahasuerus and his boon companions rounded out the banquet with prurient talk.
The Legends of the Jews — Volume 4
2
It's okay, because I'm going to get all the prurient details afterward.
Coyote dreams
3
Here are no incitements to passion, no prurient suggestions of sensual delights.
James Fenimore Cooper / American Men of Letters
4
Reporters start sniffing around Taunton, asking prurient questions about Roebuck's sexual preferences.
The Guardian
5
The subject matter was disturbing, but Rau's interest was not prurient.
The Irish Times
6
There are considerations that transcend the prurient and idiotic in tennis, of course.
The Guardian
7
At least his prurient interest came in handy as a novelist.
Sins of the Fathers
8
To probe all of this seems prurient, especially after her declaration of guardedness.
The Guardian
9
I suppose, if anything, he took a prurient interest in lesbians.
Death at La Fenice
10
At length, the little man with the epaulet commenced a very prurient tale.
Rattlin the Reefer
11
There are subjects into which only prurient curiosity cares to pry.
At Last: A Novel
12
Out with your scissors, censor, and clip off the prurient paragraph!
The Virginians
13
Since the prurient approach had dead-ended, Nell tried a different tack: playing stupid.
The Diamond Age
14
The curious and the prurient will certainly get great value in the Place Vendome.
The Irish Times
15
The issue is of more than historical or prurient interest.
The Guardian
16
Writer attributes a prurient interest to Freud in the case.
The new yorker
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