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

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

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