prurient

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. sıfat Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.

   “For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze.”

2. sıfat Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.

   “[…]nor is it more prurient or lascivious than many productions to be found in a circulating library.”

3. sıfat Curious, especially inappropriately so.

   “Had she known that prurient anecdotes, breaches of confidence, scandalous facts, and cruel observations, were intended to constitute the matter and to enhance the price, her very heart would have broken under the affliction such a disgraceful proceeding exhibited,...”