Definition of "prurient" [pru•ri•ent]

• Inordinately interested in matters of sex; lascivious. (adjective)
• Characterized by an inordinate interest in sex: prurient thoughts. (adjective)
• Arousing or appealing to an inordinate interest in sex: prurient literature. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "I have watched you and your crew, how you preach up selfish ambition for divine charity and call prurient longings celestial love, while you blaspheme that very marriage from whose mysteries you borrow all your cant."
• "One would think that it could not get any worse, but Barack Hussein Obama has determined that the nation is not filthy enough to satiate his desire that the nation be of Mephistophelean structure, which is to say prurient, nasty and vile."
• "Odd Iain that I have not heard the word "prurient" in many months yet both you and David Cameron use it on the same day about the same subject."