Associations to the word «Prurient»

Wiktionary

PRURIENT, adjective. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
PRURIENT, adjective. Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
PRURIENT, adjective. Curious, especially inappropriately so.

Dictionary definition

PRURIENT, adjective. Characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man".

Wise words

Wisdom does not show itself so much in precept as in life - in firmness of mind and a mastery of appetite. It teaches us to do, as well as talk, and to make our words and actions all of a color.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca