prurience

[ UK /pɹˈɔːɹi‍əns/ ]
NOUN
  1. feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness
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How To Use prurience In A Sentence

  • Is this not the same publication which prides itself on maximum prurience every Sunday?
  • The opening programme has a brief section in which the novices question a monk on celibacy but, at the risk of the sin of prurience, I wanted to know more about the dynamics of living in a community of men.
  • Fox News Porn - the prurience of prigs - Boing Boing Boing Boing
  • Nearly a century later, the media is rife with accounts that similarly depend on public prurience and stereotypes of women as victims.
  • Please do not perceive me as a pervert who thirsts for love, someone who possesses prurience.
  • It's their duty to report the number of dead and wounded, but anything else is media prurience.
  • Nobody ever lost money by overestimating the public's prurience.
  • To illustrate: a State might choose to prohibit only that obscenity which is the most patently offensive in its prurience - i.e., that which involves the most lascivious displays of sexual activity.
  • Like many who preceded, and many who followed, his stock-in-trade was low-cost prurience.
  • The expression on Rajbir's face, what Amrita can see through his beard, is one of gleeful prurience—Rajbir knows that after the number these women are his to do with as he pleases—Rajbir pleases much—he elongates the O in snOwing and blOwing to an uncomfortable degree and Amrita shivers in the dusty snow. FISH/SEX excerpt (Pradesh)
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