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
She has here pursued the analysis of character as an end in itself, for in "The Fatal Secret" there is no hint of disguised scandal, nor any appeal to the pruriency of degenerate readers.
From The Life and Romances of Mrs. Eliza Haywood by George Frisbie Whicher
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
Here is something to tell them that does not excite pruriency, that does set the full state of the case before them and represents probably all that can be said with assurance and safety.
From Education: How Old The New by James J. Walsh
Similar passages, especially a censure of the pruriency of Fourierism, occur in essays which were probably written some years earlier, but were not published until after his death.
From Liberty In The Nineteenth Century by Frederic May Holland
