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单词
prurient
释义
prurient
pru‧ri‧ent
/
ˈprʊəriənt
$
ˈprʊr-
/
adjective
formal
Word Origin
WORD ORIGIN
prurient
Origin:
1600-1700
Latin
present participle of
prurire
‘to itch, have desire’
Examples
EXAMPLES FROM THE CORPUS
Also because dere is
prurient
interest here on my part.
Everything he wrote on those days seemed
prurient
.
For him the sight is also shocking, but arouses a
prurient
curiosity.
His most
prurient
thought was of her toothbrush, child size and blue, in the bathroom.
Intellectuals have a weakness for the
prurient
, I read somewhere.
It should arise from concern and interest in the counsellee, not from a
prurient
self-interest or inquisitiveness on the part of the counsellor.
Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely
prurient
interest is another matter.
Suddenly, one of my own was featured in a magazine I had peeped at previously, strictly for
prurient
purposes.
having or showing too much interest in sex – used to show disapproval
:
prurient interests
—
pruriently
adverb
—
prurience
noun
[uncountable]
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