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, words, words! They shut one off from the universe.
Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with
things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.