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prurient
Synonyms and Antonyms of prurient
- He took a prurient interest in their personal life.
- a book that appealed to the prurient curiosity of its readers
dirty, filthy, gutter, indecent, lascivious, locker-room, nasty, obscene, pornographic, porny, raunchy, smutty, stag, unprintable, unpublishable, warm, X-rated
bawdy, blue, gamy (or gamey), lewd, off, off-color (or off-colored), racy, ribald, risqué, salty, spicy, suggestive
barnyard, coarse, coarse-grained, crude, earthy, foul, gross, vulgar
clean, decent, G-rated, nonobscene
priggish, prim, prudish, puritanical, staid, straitlaced (or straightlaced), Victorian
correct, decorous, genteel, nice, polite, proper, respectable, seemly
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