Associations to the word «Prurient»
Noun
Adjective
Wiktionary
PRURIENT, adjective. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
PRURIENT, adjective. Arousing or appealing to sexual desire.
PRURIENT, adjective. Curious, especially inappropriately so.
Dictionary definition
PRURIENT, adjective. Characterized by lust; "eluding the lubricious embraces of her employer"; "her sensuous grace roused his lustful nature"; "prurient literature"; "prurient thoughts"; "a salacious rooster of a little man".
Wise words
Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing
in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in
the hands of one who knows how to combine them.