The word "prurient" is correct and usable in written English.
It is an adjective that means having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters. Example sentence: His prurient curiosity made him uncomfortable in polite company.
At this, Lost in Showbiz confesses, it felt a certain prickle of prurient anticipation.
Does this kind of prurient interest irritate him?
No longer trying to figure out, as we've all had to recently, what's prurient, what's necessary, what bears witness to horror but doesn't somehow revere the brutality.
In none of these instances is masturbation presented as titillating, prurient or provocative.
The more prurient passages of the independent counsel's report are gnawing away the public respect that comes with the presidency, encouraging Democratic politicians to distance themselves from a middle-aged leader who uses a cigar to play sex-games with a 21-year-old intern and who has oral sex while receiving telephone calls from congressmen.
ReprintsIn Italy, things have become even tougher for the prying or prurient.
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Put in terms of graph theory, there were no cycles of four rings of four nodes with links connecting them.Such results are of more than merely prurient interest.
To be fair, Snapchat appeals to more than prurient youths.
Not surprisingly, this perk for the prurient is a bit random.
And, admittedly, there is no intention yet to summon witnesses to testify in the Senate chamber (nor, thank goodness, to dwell on prurient details).
