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UK
/pɹˈɔːɹiənt/
]
[ US /ˈpɹʊɹiənt/ ]
[ US /ˈpɹʊɹiənt/ ]
ADJECTIVE
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characterized by lust
prurient literature
eluding lubricious embraces
prurient thoughts
How To Use prurient In A Sentence
- There is something about regulating pornography that causes even the most prurient libertarian to become apoplectic.
- Anyways, malware is the first thing that comes to mind when you say it started opening up a ton of windows unsolicited -- especially if they were, ahem, of a prurient nature. Jean's Knitting
- I'd also like to report, on a lighter note, that this song racily mentions ‘making love’ at a time when the Boys were still supposedly buzz-cut neuters without a prurient interest in their hearts.
- With her long blonde hair, micro-dresses that may incite the prurient to hope for an occasional fleeting glimpse of her underwear and photographs on her book jackets of her in leather dresses, arms akimbo, like a stern but voluptuous school mistress, she is not, as Mr. Moore wrote, “faux glam.” Gamey indeed
- Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.
- prurient literature
- If tabloids want to divulge salacious and prurient accounts of intimate sexual behaviour in future, against the wishes of one of the participants, they may find European Union law barring their path with a sword of flame.
- In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect.
- But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media.
- It's a film that focuses on ethics, be they pure or prurient, and how criminals and hoods can still require a sense of justice and fair play.