prurient
adjective
having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
prurience
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a word derived from
prurient.
Example Sentences
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“Unscripted: The Epic Battle for a Media Empire and the Redstone Family Legacy,” by New York Times journalists James B. Stewart and Rachel Abrams, may ultimately test the prurience of an unsuspecting readership.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 12, 2023
And that means that I often am uncertain of my place in the uncomfortable space between honest curiosity and creepy prurience.
From Salon ● Feb. 2, 2019
A year and a half ago, however, for the 2016 edition, photographed by Annie Leibovitz, the calendar’s raison d’être took a sharp turn from prurience to pride.
From New York Times ● Jul. 20, 2017
Gawker’s prurience and irreverence made it less than a hallowed symbol for press freedom.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jun. 22, 2017
The altogether new quality of literary prurience, of which Sterne is still the classical example, could only have arisen on the basis of the new modesty which was then overspreading society and literature.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 1 The Evolution of Modesty; The Phenomena of Sexual Periodicity; Auto-Erotism by Havelock Ellis
