prurient

The sight convicted him in the court of his own soul as a prurient and mean-minded rustic.

I sent for other books by the same tainted hand, and my appetite for that kind of prurient romance grew keener.

The amputation of limbs will never eradicate a prurient humour, which must be sought in its source and there remedied.”

It was no prurient curiosity which had led him to pry into the secrets of the past.

Không phải sự tò mò quá đáng đã khiến anh tìm hiểu những bí mật của quá khứ.dịch máy, chưa biên tập

“War is, moreover, in our time but an inherited evil, a prurient return to savage life, a criminal puerility.

She heard the prurient scream of every male Elizabeth in England; the allusions in the House—the jeers, the bitter attacks of enemies and rivals.

These were no phrases of friendship; but the expressions of a prurient passion.

There are subjects into which only prurient curiosity cares to pry.”

A single moment on one of these sites may be all it takes to increase prurient interest or to initiate desensitization to such images.

Out with your scissors, censor, and clip off the prurient paragraph!

On the contrary, it permitted his prurient imagination to become more mischievous in its influence.

Images of clothed children can be considered child pornography where there is a "a dominant prurient purpose".