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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "prurient" in a sentence

    prurient example sentences

    prurient


    1. Having the video recorded from Alan's home was clearly far too prurient for our standards


    2. Publius Ovidius Naso, 43 BC-18 AD, Roman poet who flourished at the time of Augustus who, not being happy with Ovid"s „Metamorpheses" as being too prurient, banished him to the north shore of the (Euxine) Black Sea, never to return to his beloved Rome


    3. Nor do I wish to overly engage the prurient interest of misguided youths


    4. current mass of prurient stuff exploiting the sex instinct


    5. Might a chemical, on the other hand, ablate the higher controls and galvanize one’s thoughts, whether they be prurient or redeeming? It wasn’t so much a matter of the capitulation of one’s will, since one’s will was already invested in this area of dominant love


    6. She would be careful not to suggest there was anything jaded or prurient in her son’s fixation with this quaint Lithuanian


    7. “Are you sure this is not simply some prurient way to find out about what two men not blessed by a union can do together? Are you wanting to taste those pleasures yourself? Is that what this is really about?”


    8. The initial prurient interest bit has been dangled in front of you, the


    9. or celebrity status and only a tiny amount of prurient interest involved


    10. will be worth far more in terms of prurient interest if I am not caught before

    11. although the prurient interest types would enjoy that


    12. “Spreading hatred, fear, and terror for profit, which is the most prurient of interests, is obscene


    13. Feeling a little embarrassed at my own prurient interest, I sat back and tried to figure out who he was


    14. Anything else: any prurient curiosity, any corrupt motive for advantage evokes nothing but deception and lies from any contact with unseen human entities


    15. To this day, the Daily Mail persists with small-minded, prurient, xenophobic content to titillate and stoke the indignation of the impotent suburban petty fascist, but back in the 1930s it was even more overt in its sympathies


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    Synonyms for "prurient"

    lubricious lustful prurient salacious

    "prurient" definitions

    characterized by lust