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prurient::adjective | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | lubricious, lustful, salacious |
| Derivation | prurience, pruriency |
prurient literature.
prurient thoughts.
Examples of prurient
prurient
He has been sacrificed by a judiciary bowing to political and prurient interest.
From the time.com
Besides, people will want to believe them, such is the prurient interest in Palin.
From the telegraph.co.uk
The book isn't prurient and the break-up with Schlesinger is the only real trauma.
From the guardian.co.uk
She should not be writing prurient royal novels based on wacko conspiracy theories.
From the thisislondon.co.uk
But there's more to this show than just prurient thrills and blokes behaving badly.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The show made compellingly prurient TV but cowardly journalism and politics.
From the independent.co.uk
The sordid tabloid headlines speculating on the cause offer no prurient titillation.
From the washingtonpost.com
Howard Jacobson's own view of the book is scholarly but characteristically prurient.
From the guardian.co.uk
But the only attention that tactic gets is prurient male interest, mixed with scorn.
From the ideas.time.com
- 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
- (pruriency) prurience: feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
- 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. ...
- (Prurience) 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.
- Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful; Arousing or appealing to sexual desire
