prurient
adjective
having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
pruriency
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a word derived from
prurient.
Example Sentences
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The greed for too much has led to the lack of necessities; the pruriency of pleasure, the gnawing of torture, the mania for liberty, the increase of shackles.
From Time Magazine Archive
He must somehow make his novel interesting to his readers, just as a man is expected to make himself interesting in social conversation, without recourse to pruriency or obscenity.
From Essays on Modern Novelists by William Lyon Phelps
But it has been well said: “Prudery and pruriency are frequently companions, equally impure and cowardly; and in all scientific investigations they should be disregarded rather than conciliated.”
From The Eliminator; or, Skeleton Keys to Sacerdotal Secrets by Richard B. Westbrook
And here it may be said that although there is a good deal of coarseness in the "Canterbury Tales," there is not the slightest tinge of pruriency.
From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Alexander Smith
An idea of consummate originality is presented in a manner free from reproach or any suspicion of pruriency.
From The Oyster by Peer
