prurience

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My favorite bit:I am frightfully sorry about the printers’ prurience!

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feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

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noun

feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for prurience.

noun

feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness

Example sentences

My favorite bit:I am frightfully sorry about the printers’ prurience!

In the sense, they're on the trivial side of things and mostly get the public attention because of prurience, not salience for good governance.

It ends up giving a chilly insight on a deeply tormented man, who had trouble adjusting to modern society in all its horror and prurience!

Nevala-Lee himself treats of that selfishness, banality, and prurience rather indifferently, as though it neither shocked nor repelled him.

It's a tabloid dedicated to sensationalism, prurience, and cynicism.

Should photography of those activities, even including women's international gymnastics competitions, be banned just because, viewed with an eye toward prurience, they might qualify?

"Then I suppose "science" is no longer about what can be proved, but what the most number of people believe?Also, "Nevala-Lee himself treats of that selfishness, banality, and prurience rather indifferently, as though it neither shocked nor repelled him." I don't think the book reviewer intended that as praise, but it surely sounds like a positive aspect of a biography to me. I must be one of the evil technocrats.