Synonyms of prurient

prurient

adjective

as in warm

formal + usually disapproving having or showing too much interest in sex

He took a prurient interest in their personal life.

a book that appealed to the prurient curiosity of its readers

Synonyms & Similar Words

• warm
• unpublishable
• spicy
• obscene
• lascivious
• pornographic
• indecent
• suggestive
• filthy
• smutty
• raunchy
• dirty
• vulgar
• locker-room
• unprintable
• lewd
• bawdy
• ribald
• racy
• porny
• naughty
• gross
• crude
• X-rated
• gutter
• risqué
• gamy
• stag
• nasty
• blue
• salty
• off
• off-color
• gamey
• leering
• off-colored
• coarse
• indelicate
• earthy
• indecorous
• barnyard
• foul
• immodest
• coarse-grained

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• clean
• decent
• innocuous
• inoffensive
• puritanical
• prudish
• Victorian
• G-rated
• priggish
• nonobscene
• staid
• straitlaced
• prim
• proper
• correct
• polite
• genteel
• decorous
• respectable
• seemly
• nice
• straightlaced

Examples of prurient in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

But beyond it, Morgan sketches a real Manhattan ruled by prurient and destructive masculine appetites, from subway tunnels occupied by ad hoc homeless communities to office towers where the city’s most powerful residents impose their wills on millions of fellow New Yorkers. —Judy Berman, TIME, 31 May 2024

That might also have had something to do with a male protagonist being less subject to the prurient aspects of Sorrentino’s gaze. —David Rooney, The Hollywood Reporter, 21 May 2024

The common theme emerging from these politically conservative Marylanders is that Maryland public school librarians have nothing substantial to offer regarding the protection of young minds from prurient interests. —Reader Commentary, Baltimore Sun, 18 Mar. 2024

But there was also a prurient little thrill to winning, no matter how undeserved. —Krista Stevens, Longreads, 14 May 2024