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prurient🔊

Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.

📑 Synonyms: lustful

Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.

📑 Synonyms: titillating

Curious, especially inappropriately so.

💬 Quotations
Had she known that prurient anecdotes, breaches of confidence, scandalous facts, and cruel observations, were intended to constitute the matter and to enhance the price, her very heart would have broken under the affliction such a disgraceful proceeding exhibited,...