Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness.
1 What happened next has been the source of much prurience from biographers.
2 It is of a grossness, of... of a prurience almost... Mon Dieu!
3 This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
4 And Deborah feels it again: that mix of vicarious prurience tinged with jealousy.
5 A man will almost inevitably scare up accusations of inappropriate prurience .
6 My motive, as well as I can remember, was not prurience but simple curiosity.
7 A current example is the prurience with which many habitual "Oilers" condemn homosexuality.
8 Their affair, which lasted three years, created a media feeding frenzy of prurience about lesbianism.
9 He is equally concerned to defend himself against the obvious charges of prurience and immorality:
10 It is refreshing to turn from cynicism and prurience , to gentle and more harmless pleasantry.
11 She could not tell if she was driven by prurience , or a more noble instinct.
12 The Speak Outs are to probe such large subjects as prurience , marijuana, and the free press.
13 That is so whether the motive for such intrusion is merely prurience or a moral crusade.
14 A sanctimonious note was detectable in most coverage and normally sober RTE radio displayed astonishing, lavatorial prurience .
15 The tetchy nature of the meetings and their particular familial feel has a prurience off of its own.
16 The anonymous subjects are all prostitutes (left), but there is no hint of prurience , or prudery.
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