How do you use Prurient in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like lustful or salacious, plus the exact meaning.
Prurient in a sentence
Prurient meaning
- Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
- Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
- Curious, especially inappropriately so.
Using Prurient
- The main meaning on this page is: Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful. | Arousing or appealing to sexual desire. | Curious, especially inappropriately so.
- Useful related words include: lubricious, lustful, salacious, sexy.
- In the example corpus, prurient often appears in combinations such as: prurient interest, to prurient, of prurient.
Context around Prurient
- Average sentence length in these examples: 27.8 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 4 middle, 7 end
- Sentence types: 12 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Prurient
- In this selection, "prurient" usually appears near the end of the sentence. The average example has 27.8 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, deemed, little, takes, interest, interests and way stand out and add context to how "prurient" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include a little prurient and appeal to prurient interest and. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "prurient" sits close to words such as aanand, abcd and abdurrahman, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with prurient
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Neither does a doll, of course — even one designed with the prurient interest in mind. (15 words)
When a bar has the name Killer Whale Sex Club, you'd expect it to be memorable — and maybe a little prurient. (22 words)
Even a cis gaze has been sort of stuck on that: the question of before and after, in a sort of prurient way. (23 words)
This decision was especially significant, because, of the three books mentioned, Fanny Hill has by far the largest measure of content that seems to appeal to prurient interest, and the smallest measures of literary merit and "redeeming social importance". (39 words)
The book was “prurient”, said the titans of contemporary Malayalam literature, with writer M Mukundan lamenting that great novels in the future won’t be written by great (male) authors but by (female) sex workers. (35 words)
Danes was about 17 at the time of shooting, and DiCaprio already in his twenties.) But the film cannot be said to appeal to any but the most perverse and macro of prurient interests. (34 words)
Example sentences (12)
An adult applying contemporary community standards would find the material or performance has a predominant tendency to appeal to a prurient interest of minors in sex.
Danes was about 17 at the time of shooting, and DiCaprio already in his twenties.) But the film cannot be said to appeal to any but the most perverse and macro of prurient interests.
In Tennessee, a bill would classify “male or female impersonators who provide entertainment that appeals to a prurient interest” as adult cabaret performances and would ban performances on public property.
However, the suit continues: “All of the entertainment provided by the admiral is non-obscene (and thus cannot be deemed prurient),” the suit states.
Neither does a doll, of course — even one designed with the prurient interest in mind.
When a bar has the name Killer Whale Sex Club, you'd expect it to be memorable — and maybe a little prurient.
Even a cis gaze has been sort of stuck on that: the question of before and after, in a sort of prurient way.
The book was “prurient”, said the titans of contemporary Malayalam literature, with writer M Mukundan lamenting that great novels in the future won’t be written by great (male) authors but by (female) sex workers.
This comes through most shockingly early in the play, when a young man named Martin takes prurient interest in his two female cousins, both young children.
Miller, at 39 Note that "community" standards—not national standards—are applied whether the material appeals to the prurient interest, leaving the question of obscenity to local authorities.
The historical figure and her fate were often used in the arts to make a moral point, but underlying that there was often a prurient fascination with her sexually liberated behavior.
This decision was especially significant, because, of the three books mentioned, Fanny Hill has by far the largest measure of content that seems to appeal to prurient interest, and the smallest measures of literary merit and "redeeming social importance".
Common combinations with prurient
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- prurient interest 6×
- to prurient 3×
- of prurient 2×
- the prurient 2×