prurient

But the interest in the book is not just prurient.

That thought made her feel a little better, less prurient.

He charges her with a prurient interest in him, and he's right.

But with him it was not merely a prurient interest.

It might be considered prurient to ask for more details.

Readers with a more prurient interest were not our concern.

"Many people will come into this thinking there's more prurient material than there actually is."

And that does not include a prurient interest in the private lives of celebrities.

She came down to meet me, a prurient smile on her lips.

But her words drove all prurient thoughts out of my mind.

The only material too prurient to let the public read is anything written by a conservative.

A writer, they tell me, of rather prurient books which I should not be interested to read.

Of the report, she said, "We do not need to know the prurient details."

He managed to sound at the same time both sympathetic and prurient.

Yet the series has already created a stir over prurient content.

I think we have a prurient interest in other people's failings.

After this period of prurient interest had passed, most whites wanted nothing at all to do with the place.

I was on guard for prurient thoughts and so kept them at bay.

Would the average person living in a contemporary society think the work serves a prurient interest?

At least his prurient interest came in handy as a novelist.

The commission called the discussion prurient and not for the high school students who attended.

The magazine I see now slams you over the head with much more prurient material.

I don't think we should feed into any prurient thing.

"Not unless you have a prurient interest in what the safety director and her assistant are up to."