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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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Also because dere is prurient interest here on my part.
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Everything he wrote on those days seemed prurient .
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For him the sight is also shocking, but arouses a prurient curiosity.
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His most prurient thought was of her toothbrush, child size and blue, in the bathroom.
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Intellectuals have a weakness for the prurient , I read somewhere.
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It should arise from concern and interest in the counsellee, not from a prurient self-interest or inquisitiveness on the part of the counsellor.
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Mere tittle-tattle dredged up for purely prurient interest is another matter.
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Suddenly, one of my own was featured in a magazine I had peeped at previously, strictly for prurient purposes.