Associations to the word «Prurient»
Noun
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.