Much to my dismay, Mary came to the party wearing a prurient dress.
Source: tatoeba (4387566)
Prurient
//ˈpɹʊəɹ.i.ənt//
Synonyms for "prurient" (118 found)
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Synonyms
3 entriesRelated terms
2 entriesdbpedia genre
1 entriesderived
6 entriesis a
1 entriesrelated to
9 entriessimilar
1 entriesTranslations
34 translations across 15 languages.
Bulgarian
2 entries- похотлив adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- сексапилен adj (arousing sexual desire)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 挑逗的 adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Czech
3 entries- chlípný adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lascivní adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lascivní adj (arousing sexual desire)
Dutch
3 entries- geil adj (arousing sexual desire)
- lustopwekkend adj (arousing sexual desire)
- wellustig adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Finnish
1 entries- himokas adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
French
1 entries- lubrique adj (arousing sexual desire)
German
2 entries- lasziv adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lüstern adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Korean
1 entries- 색을 지나치게 밝히는 adj (arousing sexual desire)
Norwegian
2 entries- lysten adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lysten adj (arousing sexual desire)
Portuguese
4 entries- indecente adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lascivo adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lascivo adj (arousing sexual desire)
- libidinoso adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Romanian
2 entries- lasciv adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- libidinos adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Russian
4 entries- возбуждающий adj (arousing sexual desire)
- заводящий adj (arousing sexual desire)
- любопы́тный adj (curious, especially inappropriately so)
- похотли́вый adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Spanish
3 entries- lascivo adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- lúbrico adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
- salaz adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Tagalog
1 entries- landit adj (uneasy with desire; lustful)
Ukrainian
1 entries- хтивий adj (arousing sexual desire)
Sample sentences
9 total sentences available.
"Prurient" is a word that men use to blame other people for their sexual arousal.
Source: tatoeba (11569035)
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 ostentatiously displayed, and every sort of device that the most prurient mind could think of was had recourse to, to attract attention or excite a smile.
Source: wiktionary
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.
Source: wiktionary
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