Meanings of prurient interest in English

At least his prurient interest came in handy as a novelist.

I suppose, if anything, he took a prurient interest in lesbians.

The issue is of more than historical or prurient interest.

Writer attributes a prurient interest to Freud in the case.

I think I know a little about prurient interest.

He had no prurient interest in the story, unlike his elbow mate along the counter of the Deli.

You even have suspicions, perhaps? In the dimness of the room, his eyes took her in with prurient interest.

Yet it wasn't their horrified, almost prurient interest that took my own eye; it was captivated by something else entirely.

I think some of the men must have had the same idea, because I could feel them watching us with prurient interest.

Taoiseach Bertie Ahern has accused Mahon tribunal lawyers of displaying a prurient interest in his private life during questioning at Dublin Castle.

Meyer felt they generally escaped being busted on the grounds that bodies this fucking ugly couldn't possibly appeal to anybody's prurient interest.

Public's prurient interest in this case, by evening, Sean Drummond's commentary about America's most famous killer would make it into a lot of news channels.

Not that I intend to cater to your prurient interests by discussing my amatory achievements with such a low brow lout as yourself.