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Significados de prurience em inglês

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catalão
carnalitat
espanhol
carnalidad

Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.

lasciva
Uso de prurience em inglês
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What happened next has been the source of much prurience from biographers.
The Irish Times
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It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Mon Dieu!
Scaramouche: A Romance of the French Revolution
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This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
The new yorker
4
And Deborah feels it again: that mix of vicarious prurience tinged with jealousy.
Pandaemonium
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A man will almost inevitably scare up accusations of inappropriate prurience.
The Irish Times
6
My motive, as well as I can remember, was not prurience but simple curiosity.
The Fifth Head of Cerberus
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A current example is the prurience with which many habitual "Oilers" condemn homosexuality.
The portable atheist: essential readings for the nonbeliever
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Their affair, which lasted three years, created a media feeding frenzy of prurience about lesbianism.
The Guardian
9
He is equally concerned to defend himself against the obvious charges of prurience and immorality:
Post-Augustan Poetry From Seneca to Juvenal
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It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience, to gentle and more harmless pleasantry.
History of English Humour, Vol. 2
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She could not tell if she was driven by prurience, or a more noble instinct.
The Scar
12
The Speak Outs are to probe such large subjects as prurience, marijuana, and the free press.
The new yorker
13
That is so whether the motive for such intrusion is merely prurience or a moral crusade.
The Guardian
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A sanctimonious note was detectable in most coverage and normally sober RTE radio displayed astonishing, lavatorial prurience.
The Irish Times
15
The tetchy nature of the meetings and their particular familial feel has a prurience off of its own.
The Irish Times
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The anonymous subjects are all prostitutes (left), but there is no hint of prurience, or prudery.
The Irish Times
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espanhol
carnalidad
Prurience ao longo do tempo