Translations for „prurient“ in the English » German Dictionary

pru·ri·ent [ˈprʊəriənt, Am ˈprʊr-] ADJ pej form

prurient

lüstern

prurient inclination

abartig pej

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English

But what really is the internet -- the best delivery system for prurient content the world will ever know?

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If you would like, for your own prurient reasons, to know more, do some research.

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The former was a rather prescient - or possibly only perennial - farce about libidinous politicos and a prurient press.

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Obscene or lewd materials were defined by the law included all materials the appeal the prurient interest, among other things.

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Only books primarily appealing to prurient interest could be banned.

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It is written in a style at once prurient and hypocritical.

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Several critics attacked the film for its prurient elements.

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The scenes could be prurient if they weren't the excruciating truth.

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Locating an old camera, he begins to take a prurient interest in her, taking compromising candid photographs of her without her knowledge.

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An average person, applying contemporary community standards, would find the work, taken as a whole, appeals to the prurient interest; 2.

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