Definition of prurient in English:

prurient

adjective ˈprʊərɪəntˈprʊriənt

Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, especially the sexual activity of others.
好色的，淫秽的；引起淫欲的
she'd been the subject of much prurient curiosity
她曾是个很能引起淫思的对象。
Example sentencesExamples
- The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing.
- But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair.
- Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence.
- These type of programmes are cheap (from a production standpoint) puerile, prurient and sadly popular.
- There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership.
- In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect.
- In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers.
- Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen.
- But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media.
- The trouble is, we are a prurient lot, always interested in the sex lives of other people, especially the famous.
- Shaun's censorious attitude combines freely with a prurient interest in sexual matters.
- If prurient peering into other people's private lives is now an offence, the Home Office should be the first in the dock, with this Act offered as evidence for the prosecution.
- ‘Nobody is going to speak freely if they're going to be quoted by ambitious and prurient journalists’.
- And it has enough about actual sex to satisfy your prurient side as well.
- Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.
- The film, however, while presenting itself as a compassionate treatment, exploits for dramatic purposes the prurient interests of the audience.
- There is something about regulating pornography that causes even the most prurient libertarian to become apoplectic.
- People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism so why should we blame the programme makers for that?
- Indeed, the only possible response to prurient questions is ‘mind your own business’.
- Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Synonyms
salacious, licentious, voyeuristic, lascivious, lecherous, lustful, lewd, libidinous, lubricious
depraved, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated
rare concupiscent

Derivatives

prurience

noun ˈprʊərɪənsˈprʊriəns

Nearly a century later, the media is rife with accounts that similarly depend on public prurience and stereotypes of women as victims.
Example sentencesExamples
- To illustrate: a State might choose to prohibit only that obscenity which is the most patently offensive in its prurience - i.e., that which involves the most lascivious displays of sexual activity.
- It is taboo, embarrassment and sexuality's enforced covertness which foments ‘sauciness’, prurience, and notions of filth.
- It's their duty to report the number of dead and wounded, but anything else is media prurience.
- If the British tabloid press shows the nation's unconscious mind at work - a bubbling pit of prurience and anxiety - then the Hollywood block-buster reveals the deepest fantasies and paranoia of the American psyche.

pruriency

noun

She also shames the reader with his or her pruriency - promising a story about a murderess involved in an extramarital sexual scandal.
Example sentencesExamples
- I've plunged beyond the sickest depths of pruriency. What is normal to me is far beneath what is seen as mere "obscenity".

pruriently

adverb ˈprʊərɪəntliˈprʊriəntli

How this chap responds to your choosing not to have an agony recital will tell you whether he respects your wishes or is pruriently curious and just interested in a soap opera.
Example sentencesExamples
- However, the play works pruriently on our base appetites without offering anything in the way of psychological illumination.
- People have always been interested, perhaps pruriently in stars who prematurely flame out.
- These are people who frequented the beaches and pruriently connected naturism with sex.
- Could one not, as a whole, find the nude statue of Michelangelo's David pruriently appealing?

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense 'having a mental itching'): from Latin prurient- 'itching, longing' and 'being wanton', from the verb prurire.

Rhymes

esurient, luxuriant, parturient

Definition of prurient in US English:

prurient

adjectiveˈprʊriəntˈpro͝orēənt

Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters.
好色的，淫秽的；引起淫欲的
she'd been the subject of much prurient curiosity
她曾是个很能引起淫思的对象。
Example sentencesExamples
- These type of programmes are cheap (from a production standpoint) puerile, prurient and sadly popular.
- In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers.
- In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect.
- ‘Nobody is going to speak freely if they're going to be quoted by ambitious and prurient journalists’.
- Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
- Indeed, the only possible response to prurient questions is ‘mind your own business’.
- Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane.
- And it has enough about actual sex to satisfy your prurient side as well.
- But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media.
- The film, however, while presenting itself as a compassionate treatment, exploits for dramatic purposes the prurient interests of the audience.
- If prurient peering into other people's private lives is now an offence, the Home Office should be the first in the dock, with this Act offered as evidence for the prosecution.
- But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair.
- Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen.
- There is something about regulating pornography that causes even the most prurient libertarian to become apoplectic.
- Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence.
- People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism so why should we blame the programme makers for that?
- There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership.
- The trouble is, we are a prurient lot, always interested in the sex lives of other people, especially the famous.
- The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing.
- Shaun's censorious attitude combines freely with a prurient interest in sexual matters.
Synonyms
salacious, licentious, voyeuristic, lascivious, lecherous, lustful, lewd, libidinous, lubricious

Origin

Late 16th century (in the sense ‘having a mental itching’): from Latin prurient- ‘itching, longing’ and ‘being wanton’, from the verb prurire.

词汇	prurient
释义	Definition of prurient in English: prurient adjective ˈprʊərɪəntˈprʊriənt Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, especially the sexual activity of others. 好色的，淫秽的；引起淫欲的 she'd been the subject of much prurient curiosity 她曾是个很能引起淫思的对象。 Example sentencesExamples The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing. But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair. Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence. These type of programmes are cheap (from a production standpoint) puerile, prurient and sadly popular. There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership. In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect. In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers. Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen. But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media. The trouble is, we are a prurient lot, always interested in the sex lives of other people, especially the famous. Shaun's censorious attitude combines freely with a prurient interest in sexual matters. If prurient peering into other people's private lives is now an offence, the Home Office should be the first in the dock, with this Act offered as evidence for the prosecution. ‘Nobody is going to speak freely if they're going to be quoted by ambitious and prurient journalists’. And it has enough about actual sex to satisfy your prurient side as well. Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane. The film, however, while presenting itself as a compassionate treatment, exploits for dramatic purposes the prurient interests of the audience. There is something about regulating pornography that causes even the most prurient libertarian to become apoplectic. People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism so why should we blame the programme makers for that? Indeed, the only possible response to prurient questions is ‘mind your own business’. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. Synonyms salacious, licentious, voyeuristic, lascivious, lecherous, lustful, lewd, libidinous, lubricious depraved, debauched, degenerate, dissolute, dissipated rare concupiscent Derivatives prurience noun ˈprʊərɪənsˈprʊriəns Nearly a century later, the media is rife with accounts that similarly depend on public prurience and stereotypes of women as victims. Example sentencesExamples To illustrate: a State might choose to prohibit only that obscenity which is the most patently offensive in its prurience - i.e., that which involves the most lascivious displays of sexual activity. It is taboo, embarrassment and sexuality's enforced covertness which foments ‘sauciness’, prurience, and notions of filth. It's their duty to report the number of dead and wounded, but anything else is media prurience. If the British tabloid press shows the nation's unconscious mind at work - a bubbling pit of prurience and anxiety - then the Hollywood block-buster reveals the deepest fantasies and paranoia of the American psyche. pruriency noun She also shames the reader with his or her pruriency - promising a story about a murderess involved in an extramarital sexual scandal. Example sentencesExamples I've plunged beyond the sickest depths of pruriency. What is normal to me is far beneath what is seen as mere "obscenity". pruriently adverb ˈprʊərɪəntliˈprʊriəntli How this chap responds to your choosing not to have an agony recital will tell you whether he respects your wishes or is pruriently curious and just interested in a soap opera. Example sentencesExamples However, the play works pruriently on our base appetites without offering anything in the way of psychological illumination. People have always been interested, perhaps pruriently in stars who prematurely flame out. These are people who frequented the beaches and pruriently connected naturism with sex. Could one not, as a whole, find the nude statue of Michelangelo's David pruriently appealing? Origin Late 16th century (in the sense 'having a mental itching'): from Latin prurient- 'itching, longing' and 'being wanton', from the verb prurire. Rhymes esurient, luxuriant, parturient Definition of prurient in US English: prurient adjectiveˈprʊriəntˈpro͝orēənt Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters. 好色的，淫秽的；引起淫欲的 she'd been the subject of much prurient curiosity 她曾是个很能引起淫思的对象。 Example sentencesExamples These type of programmes are cheap (from a production standpoint) puerile, prurient and sadly popular. In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers. In the West, Miike frequently gets pegged as a shock artist, a filmmaker who merits our prurient interest more than our legitimate respect. ‘Nobody is going to speak freely if they're going to be quoted by ambitious and prurient journalists’. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. Indeed, the only possible response to prurient questions is ‘mind your own business’. Operating on a far more prurient level is Paul Schrader's latest, Auto Focus, the lurid tale of Hogan's Heroes star Bob Crane. And it has enough about actual sex to satisfy your prurient side as well. But beneath the prurient detail lies a stinging indictment of greater Canadian society, police and the mainstream media. The film, however, while presenting itself as a compassionate treatment, exploits for dramatic purposes the prurient interests of the audience. If prurient peering into other people's private lives is now an offence, the Home Office should be the first in the dock, with this Act offered as evidence for the prosecution. But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair. Pious people, along with neglectful officials and prurient newspapers, need not worry about the thin dividing line between the demon and the normal citizen. There is something about regulating pornography that causes even the most prurient libertarian to become apoplectic. Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence. People have an in-built prurient curiosity and voyeurism so why should we blame the programme makers for that? There is a great deal of prurient curiosity surrounding our partnership. The trouble is, we are a prurient lot, always interested in the sex lives of other people, especially the famous. The best a guy with prurient interests gets to see is one glimpse of Reneé Humphrey, and a few fairly hot scenes of women kissing. Shaun's censorious attitude combines freely with a prurient interest in sexual matters. Synonyms salacious, licentious, voyeuristic, lascivious, lecherous, lustful, lewd, libidinous, lubricious Origin Late 16th century (in the sense ‘having a mental itching’): from Latin prurient- ‘itching, longing’ and ‘being wanton’, from the verb prurire.
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