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Another word for prurient

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Adjective

  1. Feeling or devoted to sexual love or desire

    See also:

    sex

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Sentence Examples

  • However, those with prurient interests and are over the age of 18, may enter and explore.

  • With this kind of prurient scrutiny, female entrepreneurs are understandably wary of becoming too public.

  • He strongly detested the prurient immorality of the schools of Saint-Simon and Fourier.

  • prurient interest in casual readers.

  • prurient curiosity and downright bad taste.

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