prurient

in a sentence

AT THE RISK OF SOUNDING PRURIENT, I SHALL REVEAL THE SHOCKING NATURE OF THESE TWO SINS AGAINST THE SCHOOL AND WOMANKIND.†  (source) John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

And the rest of them leaning forward in their chairs, My dear, all horror and prurience.†  (source) Margaret Atwood, The Handmaid's Tale, 1985

Well, let me assure you that English professors are not innately prurient.†  (source) Thomas C. Foster, How to Read Literature Like a Professor, 2003

Behind the rapes and other abuse heaped on women in much of the world, it's hard not to see something more sinister than just libido and prurient opportunism.†  (source) Nicholas D. Kristof, Half the Sky, 2009

This again would have no significance and would be unworthy of note except for one thing: I have talked with such men many times as a white and they never show the glow of prurience he revealed.†  (source) John Howard Griffin, Black Like Me, 1961

Nor saw I e'er Groom currying so fast, for whom his lord Impatient waited, or himself perchance Tir'd with long watching, as of these each one Plied quickly his keen nails, through furiousness Of ne'er abated pruriency.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, The Divine Comedy, 1320

That was just prurient curiosity.†  (source) Cassandra Clare, City of Fallen Angels, 2011

And what if, together with this, he had his inner and personal growths of vice, passion, even prurience, unbecoming obscenity?†  (source) Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March, 1949

Nor saw I e'er Groom currying so fast, for whom his lord Impatient waited, or himself perchance Tir'd with long watching, as of these each one Plied quickly his keen nails, through furiousness Of ne'er abated pruriency.†  (source) Dante Alighieri, Dante's Inferno, 1320

I appealed to prurient journalistic sensationalism, and-although it damn near killed him-got Walther Apfel to corroborate halfway.†  (source) Robert Ludlum, The Bourne Identity, 1980

They watched as a rousing tale of love and murder in the court of an Oriental potentate unrolled silently before them; scene after opulent scene sped past, full of naked bodies, despotic lust, and abject servility blind in its zeal, full of cruelty, prurience, and fatal desire—and then suddenly the film slowed to linger revealingly on the muscular arm of an executioner.†  (source) Thomas Mann, The Magic Mountain, 1924

There was nothing prurient about his interest in the Version Clinic or in obstetrics and gynecology.†  (source) Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone, 2009

There is no folly so besotted that the idiotic rivalries of society, the prurience, the rashness, the blindness of youth, will not hurry a man to its commission.†  (source) Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, 1847