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prurient adjective bawdy, carnal, coarse, cyprian, debauched, dirty, dissipated, dissolute, erotic, fleshly, foul, immodest, impure, indecent, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, libidinosus, libidinous, licentious, lickerish, lubricious, lustful, obscene, pornographic, ribald, salacious, satyric, shameless, smutty, suggestive, unchaste, unclean, unvirtuous, wanton Associated concepts: pornography, prurient interests See also: dissolute, immoral, lascivious, lecherous, lewd, salacious How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| 5) It probably promotes continence by diminishing the pruriency of the sexual appetite. He displays an assured grasp of the politics of Hanoverian England, and refreshingly discusses sex without prudishness or pruriency (albeit, inevitably, from the viewpoint of an early 1970s England just freed from sexual censorship)--and also without the theoretical strainings so evident in much postmodernist criticism. It probably promotes continence by diminishing the pruriency of the sexual appetite. |
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