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Example sentences for: prurient

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3.54), your normally prurient theater-goer may well sense a hint of Onan when Macbeth orders the Doctor to “Pull't off, I say.”
How tragic that this is the legacy that our prurient minds attach to one of the finest civic-minded organizations of the century.
." Instead, the tone has been pretty straightforwardly condemnatory in regard to excess prosecutorial zeal and prurient exposures of private life.
It is the prurient prosecutor who imposed his Puritanical moralism on a sexually liberated if somewhat confused woman--a man who held her against her will, denied her the right to call her lawyer, harassed her mother and brother, flagrantly violated her constitutional rights.
It can take a number of forms: the prurient (as in much of Freud's), the haunting (ditto), the sordid-poetic (Kraft-Ebbing, for example), the pregnant-random (as in much of criminology).