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prurience::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
| Type of | amativeness, amorousness, eroticism, erotism, sexiness |
| Derivation | prurient |
Examples of prurience
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It is also the case that public prurience dictates tabloid editorial agendas.
From the guardian.co.uk
With morbid prurience, we demand proof of how and where they met their ends.
From the telegraph.co.uk
It also feeds a prurience which you, like all the press, ultimately make money from.
From the guardian.co.uk
The rule of prurience and hypocrisy would remain unchallenged to this day.
From the guardian.co.uk
Prurience and hypocrisy are the twin forces driving the phone-hacking saga.
From the guardian.co.uk
That is so whether the motive for such intrusion is merely prurience or a moral crusade.
From the guardian.co.uk
Cigars, hair gel, the whole political-entertainment complex of prurience.
From the time.com
However, these films aren't just exercises in self-reflexive prurience.
From the independent.co.uk
There was a sensational trial, marked by a prejudice and prurience that now seems savage.
From the metro.co.uk
- Feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
- (prurient) lubricious: characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man"
- (pruriently) in a prurient manner
- The Miller test (also called the Three Prong Obscenity Test), is the United States Supreme Court's test for determining whether speech or expression can be labeled obscene, in which case it is not protected by the First Amendment to the United States Constitution and can be prohibited.
- Prurient is the performing name of Ian Dominick Fernow. He has released material on numerous independent record labels, such as American Tapes, Hanson Records, RRRecords, Load Records, Troubleman Unlimited, Chrondritic Sound, Kitty Play Records, and his own label Hospital Productions. ...
- The quality of being prurient
- (prurient) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful; Arousing or appealing to sexual desire
