procaciousadj.

1660 R. Baxter Treat. Self-denyall xliv. 237 The temptations of women, and procacious youth.

1685 R. Baxter Paraphr. New Test. 1 Pet. iii. 3 A vain, proud, procacious, tempting mind.

1706 T. Forrester Rev. & Consideration Two Late Pamphlets 270 Savouring more of procacious Vanity, than any Desire of Knowledge, and Love of Truth.

1796 tr. Voltaire La Pucelle I. iii. 73 Whose Acts exterminate the Race procacious, Of a fam'd Madman we name Saint Ignatius.

1869 J. Brown Lett. (1907) 197 I stuck in M. Arnold's brilliant and procacious lecture.

1934 Q. Rev. Biol. 9 97/2 Reginald, our procacious Office Boy, says that the only biologists likely to be influenced by this treatise are God and Bernard Shaw.

1962 M. Kenny Spanish Tapestry ii.ii. 147 A mixed commission of laity and clergy deals with the written word; its policy is to prohibit heresies or ‘procacious obscenities’.

1999 No More Power to IMF in flora.mai-not (Usenet newsgroup) 14 Oct. The IMF is reviled..for its persistent and procacious imposition of economic policies that have enriched the powerful while devastating poor and working-class families.

1772 T. Nugent tr. J. F. de Isla Hist. Friar Gerund I. iii. v. 535 Denying procaciously what he wishes to confer.

1918 C. Van Vechten Merry-go-round 114 Mariette Mazarin and Feodor Chaliapine have been procaciously excoriated by the critics.

2006 What is mLife? Ask AT&T Wireless (Electronic text) 6 Mar. A 60-second ad will draw a correlation between the freedom associated with wireless telephony.., and, procaciously, the freedom that comes via the severing of the umbilical cord.