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Example sentences for: prurient

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"Once the members of the judiciary committee have examined the text [of the Starr report], in all its shocking and prurient detail," Evans-Pritchard wrote, "they will acknowledge that the President is a borderline sociopath who must be removed at once."
Six days after receiving Starr's report, DeLay and other Republican leaders in Congress sent FBI Director Louis Freeh a letter protesting the dissemination of "prurient allegations" about the "personal lives" of members of Congress.
How tragic that this is the legacy that our prurient minds attach to one of the finest civic-minded organizations of the century.
The three papers all note that Starr's justification for including such prurient details was Clinton's numerous denials of having "sexual relations" with Lewinsky according to the legal definition established in the Paula Jones case.
An "art for everyone" policy pitches opera to soccer fans and adds prurient plot lines to once-staid radio shows.