prurient

How to use prurient in a sentence

We’re living in America, let’s remember, which is both puritanical and prurient.

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

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.

OSCAR WILDEARTHUR RANSOME

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

SHANDYGAFFCHRISTOPHER MORLEY

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.

To call such a man "ambitious," to figure him as the prurient wind-bag described above, seems to me the poorest solecism.

A poor morbid prurient empty man; fitter for the ward of a hospital than for a throne among men.

This prurient prudery of the vulgar mind was once strongly exhibited in Baltimore.

SYNONYM OF THE DAY

OCTOBER 26, 1985