How to Use prurient in a Sentence

prurient

adjective
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  • He took a prurient interest in her personal life.
  • But the main quibble has to do with Ivory’s memories of the prurient kind.
    — John Tamny, Forbes, 26 Jan. 2022
  • Sleep under the stars on a warm late June night, and take it all in with a side of wanton, prurient sky candy.
    — Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 17 Jan. 2020
  • With not much to fill all those hours, many turned to prurient topics and became easy fodder for satire.
    — Mark Kennedy, Star Tribune, 19 July 2021
  • And there is much to love about it beside its now tamely prurient aspects.
    — Matthew J. Palm, orlandosentinel.com, 15 Oct. 2020
  • And yet, despite those taglines, and despite the title, the film isn’t a prurient cautionary tale about a girl gone wild.
    — Vulture, 26 May 2022
  • The assumption at first is that the girls’ captor has prurient interests in mind.
    — Michael O'Sullivan, The Denver Post, 20 Jan. 2017
  • But this year the interest is also a little more prurient.
    — Bill Goodykoontz, The Arizona Republic, 6 Apr. 2022
  • But the story about the undersecretary and the African American train porters was simply too prurient to print.
    — James Kirchick, Washington Post, 15 June 2022
  • Every time a plot feels corny or prurient or preachy, there’s an acknowledgment in the dialogue.
    — Emily Nussbaum, The New Yorker, 23 Mar. 2017
  • Several of the names have brought prurient snickers from those with creatively immoral minds.
    — Victor Mather, New York Times, 20 May 2016
  • So Beaulieu removed the tables and installed a counter to accommodate his more prurient patrons.
    — Tim Carman, Washington Post, 3 July 2020
  • But part of the prurient thrill of reality TV is being invited to stay and see the squirmy interior lives of others.
    — Amanda Mull, The Atlantic, 5 Mar. 2022
  • The campaign learns of it, and the campaign pleads its case that the material is merely prurient and that publishing it would be gratuitous and not in the public interest.
    — Michael Tomasky, The New Republic, 5 Dec. 2022
  • Carrington pleaded guilty to three counts of visual surveillance with prurient intent, court records show.
    — Baltimore Sun Staff, baltimoresun.com, 4 Sep. 2019
  • The Snowman Boring and incoherent, this is a slow, dull, prurient film about a serial killer, going around severing the heads of female victims.
    — Chronicle Staff Report, San Francisco Chronicle, 25 Oct. 2017
  • Much of the reporting about Tipton was prurient, skeptical, and derisive.
    — Richard Brod, The New Yorker, 16 July 2021
  • The movie should hit harder because a prurient party-fest with dark undertones of creeping irrelevance and impermanence seems ready-made to thrill us, if not move us.
    — K. Austin Collins, Rolling Stone, 23 Dec. 2022
  • So does Olympian Caster Semenya, whose biology has been the subject of prurient scrutiny.
    — Washington Post, 6 Oct. 2019
  • The first prong asks if an average person, using community standards, would decide the work appeals to the prurient interest.
    — Peter Greene, Forbes, 13 Feb. 2023
  • Both doctors took advantage of young women to satisfy their prurient desires.
    — Los Angeles Times, 18 July 2022
  • The scene resembled the summoning of a cult leader, and the Dominican firebrand Tokischa, a rapper known for her prurient lyrics and high-profile collaborations, emerged onstage.
    — New York Times, 13 Apr. 2022
  • But for some people, what begins as prurient curiosity eventually leads them to jail.
    — Julia Scheeres, WIRED, 30 Sep. 2002
  • The gentle gorgeousness of the art nevertheless dilutes any prurient effect the exhibition might have.
    — Peter Plagens, WSJ, 1 Dec. 2018
  • For the most part, though, this is a thoughtful look at a controversy unlikely to fade away, so long as modern technology and prurient interests continue to exist.
    — Noel Murray, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2023
  • Ever sensitive to Apple's prurient insinuations, Epic did not let slip the banana aside.
    — Robert Hackett, Fortune, 11 May 2021
  • Still, a window into a famous person’s birth-to-death story may offer enormous and sometimes prurient satisfactions.
    — Lauren Groff, The Atlantic, 14 Dec. 2022
  • As for the prurient line or two about Sonia, Orwell’s second wife, doing nude modeling for the painters of the Euston Road school, this is categorically denied by her biographer.
    — D.j. Taylor, WSJ, 15 Dec. 2017
  • The Kardashian family journey from prurient notoriety to in-control role models has long since happened.
    — Daniel D'addario, Variety, 11 Apr. 2022
  • It’s prurient and obscene, and its mortification has been taken up by news media for everybody to see repeatedly and thus abuse themselves — self-righteously.
    — Armond White, National Review, 26 May 2021

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