Translations for „prurient“ in the English » Russian Dictionary

prurient [ˈprʊərɪənt, Am ˈprʊrɪ-] ADJ pej form

prurient

похотли́вый

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English

The situation quickly attracted public attention, and was widely observed by those with prurient minds.

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I feel he wouldn't want me to; that it would be prurient, somehow.

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The participation of women in "orgia", which in some manifestations was exclusive to women, sometimes led to prurient speculation and attempts to suppress the rites.

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Second, stories of the sabbat had prurient and orgiastic elements, which caused these stories to be told and retold.

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

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Thus, the artist's interest in freaks couldn't possibly be exploitative, and any well-cultured appreciation wasn't at all prurient.

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The onlookers' initial reactions of fear and awe give way to scientific curiosity and then something more prurient, with terrible consequences.

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Several critics attacked the film for its prurient elements.

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She would have cursed for months the prurient observers of her bed games.

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