prurient

• Poor prurient, querulous Uncle Paul, displaced from his beloved France, and living in chilly London. —  A Presumption of Death - Jill Paton Walsh, Dorothy L Sayers, - [Wimsey-Vane]
• Much of their interest was prurient, with accounts of giant beds for the Queen and her consorts (a lurid fantasy, given the Intrigue configuration). —  F ;SF; - vol 097 issue 03 - September 1999
• Mother nodded meant to ease their way into the Sound So Eros said Cousin Eros is a valuable window into the male mind," Mother observed, "never deigning to hide his thoughts, no matter how prurient or self-interested. —  F ;SF; - vol 102 issue 01 - January 2002
• If she do not gravitate too irresistibly towards that class of New-Era people (which includes whatsoever we have of prurient, esurient, morbid, flimsy, and in fact pitiable and unprofitable, and is at a sad discount among men of sense), she may get into good tracks of inquiry and connection here, and be very useful to herself and others. —  The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II
• It was not something to be treated as a prurient jest He examined Ashton with a frown but could tell nothing from the man's customarily impassive expression. —  KISSED BY SHADOWS

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