OXFORD 9000
📚 adj • entry_id 14820

prurient

/ˈpɹʊəɹ.i.ənt/
Meanings (ES + gloss)
lascivo • lúbrico • salaz
Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
For example, some of the more prudish senders may have averted their attention from the sexual pictures while other more prurient viewers may have intensified their gaze.
We know that at that period certain indecencies in the dresses, even of those who were considered as the most refined and polished men of the age, were not only tolerated but osten…