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prurient

/proor-ee-uhnt/US // ˈprʊər i ənt //UK // (ˈprʊərɪənt) //

色情的,色情,猥亵性,猥亵

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Definitions

adj.形容词 adjective
  1. 1
    • : having, inclined to have, or characterized by lascivious or lustful thoughts, desires, etc.
    • : causing lasciviousness or lust.
    • : having a restless desire or longing.

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Examples

  • His Jeff Jefferies is her dream twin, a man who has come to prefer the prurient watching of life to actually living it.

  • The only interest served by the Guardians of Peace is our prurient interest.

  • The influence of Oliver Stone, our granddaddy of prurient interest in political violence, hung thick in the air.

  • And Monica Lewinsky, now 41, is once again the object of prurient curiosity.

  • He had this idea that he was in the wrong body and wanted to become a woman, and these issues are not just prurient.

  • Sure, a lot of the interest in his returns is politically prurient.

  • Compared with this lordly poem, the erotic novel of the day, with its prurient platitudes, is as a satyr to Hyperion.

  • And the prurient, who are most intimately moved by it, make up most of those who cannot see beyond it.

  • The book was too true to life to please the bourgeois and yet not ribald enough to tickle the prurient.

  • In London or in New-York, an establishment so public would be thronged with persons eager to gratify a prurient curiosity.

  • At length, the little man with the epaulet commenced a very prurient tale.