(a.) Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious curiosity or propensity; lustful.
Example Sentences:
(1) Miller is suing the NoW's parent company, News Group, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(2) Writing about Tulsa in The Photobook Volume 1 , authors Martin Parr and Gerry Badger say that the "incessant focus on the sleazy aspect of the lives portrayed, to the exclusion of almost anything else – whether photographed from the 'inside' or not – raises concerns about exploitation and drawing the viewer into a prurient, voyeuristic relationship with the work."
(3) There is nothing to prevent a judge from clearing a court while a potential line of questioning is explored, thus ensuring that such prurient details are not reported, often a major factor in the humiliation of a witness.
(4) It did not confuse public interest with a prurient interest by the public.
(5) The moralising strand will now have the chance to indulge in prurient probing of Mr Gingrich's personal life, while the populist faction interrogates Mr Romney's asset-stripping past.
(6) Now let's have fewer prurient questions about how they feel, and more probing questions about what they think – which ought to be what this election is about.
(7) In the Mail, which routinely prints a lot of very readable but prurient smut throughout its middle pages, it appeared as "w*****".
(8) Whether Vaz stays or goes, we must not let prurient interest in his personal life derail this precious moment – this chance for sex workers in the UK to live a life free from fear and stigma.
(9) The health scare ran wild on Twitter but journalists were frustrated by officials who called their thirst for information prurient and "un-African."
(10) All of the prurient details of the recent disgraceful case, where a 21-year-old was convicted and given a three-month suspended sentence for taking abortion pills she bought online, have been documented in this newspaper and others, some even going so far as to suggest a 10- to 12-week foetus is a “baby boy”.
(11) Zac Goldsmith, a multimillionaire MP, spoke for the first time about his decision to take out an injunction, arguing that they were necessary because, he said, some newspapers were unwilling "to distinguish between what is in the public interest and what is merely of prurient interest to some of the public".
(12) The Conservative MP Zac Goldsmith earlier called for parliament to pass a privacy law , arguing that some newspapers could not distinguish between the public interest and "what is merely of prurient interest to the public".
(13) Mr Letterman rarely offers anything approaching the threat that Mr Cameron might face in a Jeremy Paxman interview or if he ventured on to a studio sofa with a prurient UK host like Jonathan Ross or Russell Brand.
(14) I am not going to pretend that I looked at the online Muamba images with the pure dispassion of a cultural commentator: there is a prurient, ghoulish human instinct to know what the worst moments of life might look like.
(15) When the Dean of Jersey, the Very Rev Robert Key, held a service after the skull was found, it included the words: "From over-inquisitiveness, false sensationalism and prurient curiosity, good Lord, deliver us."
(16) Margaret Corvid : ‘Prurient interest must not derail the chance for sex workers to live free from fear and stigma’ I’m no fan of Keith Vaz, but when I read that he’d been accused of hiring male sex workers, I knew that defending him isn’t about him – it’s about our right as sex workers to work without threat of violence and arrest.
(17) Miller is suing News Group, the subsidiary that publishes the News of the World, and Mulcaire, accusing them of breaching her privacy and of harassing her "solely for the commercial purpose of profiting from obtaining private information about her and to satisfy the prurient curiosity of members of the public regarding the private life of a well-known individual".
(18) In January, the website Grantland (which is owned by ESPN Internet Ventures , a subsidiary of the Walt Disney Company ) published an article – ostensibly about the inventor of a golf putter – that resulted in a prurient quest to uncover the subject's trans status, and which may have contributed to the article's subject's suicide.
(19) Zac Goldsmith, who has called for a privacy law, says that it is needed because some newspapers blur the lines between genuine public interest and "what is merely of prurient interest".
(20) The prurient nature of the questioning led its authors to conclude that some Home Office caseworkers were "fixated on sexual practice rather than sexual identity".
Salacious
Definition:
(n.) Having a propensity to venery; lustful; lecherous.
Example Sentences:
(1) There are the usual reasons: Woody Allen is famous and at the top of his professional craft, and this is basically a he said-she said situation without the proof we've come to expect in the 21st century: DNA results, salacious texts and emails, that sort of thing.
(2) "There's a global appetite for any North Korea story and the more salacious the better.
(3) Documents cite various occasions where players and coaches cursed or flipped each other the bird, as well as “salacious” Super Bowl concerts by Michael Jackson and Prince.
(4) The charges against them are as salacious as they are farcical,” Senator Patrick Leahy of Vermont said late last month .
(5) For the media, it was Bonnie and Clyde and Clyde – offering the salacious possibility of a murderous menage a trois Rather than investigating how far-right killers could have operated undetected for so long, most of the German media opted for lurid coverage of the NSU, insisting that it consisted of only three people.
(6) North Korea has attacked the South's "reptile media" for running salacious reports alleging Kim Jong-un ordered nine performers to be executed to protect his wife's reputation.
(7) It accuses Roberts’s lawyers of including the names of prominent individuals, which it says were irrelevant to the lawsuit, in an attempt to generate publicity with a motion that “simply proffers various salacious allegations as quotable tabloid fodder”.
(8) "They want to be able to show that which is salacious, that which is sensational… they want to give a sense of the drama of the courtroom."
(9) Each time the story is retold it changes, with new salacious details about public figures and world leaders.
(10) Much attention was focused on the salacious and graphic details accompanying the independent counsel's findings, which Mr Clinton's advisers believe will be decisive in setting the national mood in which the report is discussed.
(11) Gillian Slovo, daughter of anti-apartheid activists Joe Slovo and Ruth First, "worried when the author's sourcing was overtaken by its opposite: gossip, some of it salacious".
(12) The purpose of the act was to restrict reporting salacious deatails in divorces.
(13) The Borat star apparently walked after his vision of a racy treatment depicting Mercury's famously salacious lifestyle was at odds with the more family-friendly approach desired by the singer's erstwhile bandmates.
(14) Last year 40 female political journalists signed a petition complaining of persistent harassment by senior male politicians, such as comments complaining they weren’t showing enough cleavage, text messages asking them out, salacious comments, harassment and being asked after holidays: “Are you tanned all over?” Things have got so bad that a women’s group this week opened a free phone line providing legal advice for women who are victims of harassment by male politicians.
(15) They also accuse the salacious romance, itself the subject of controversy after stars Adèle Exarchopoulos and Léa Seydoux alleged Kechiche bullied them on set , of veering into child porn territory.
(16) Some are overtly salacious; others, like 2004’s Precious Boys, sad and soulful.
(17) Over the past decade, the agency has been involved in fewer salacious incidents and has moved away from the "good ol' boy" image that dogged it in the past, according to the New York Times.
(18) Whilst routinely described as tragic, Hoffman's death is insufficiently sad to be left un-supplemented in the mandatory posthumous scramble for salacious garnish; we will now be subjected to mourn-ography posing as analysis.
(19) The genre has become increasingly salacious in the intervening years, as women have revealed ever more intimate details of couplings to papers so grateful for their indiscretions that they shell out thousands of pounds for the privilege of publishing them.
(20) Another possibility, the newspaper admitted, was that Leone was not seen as authentically Indian and "no one minds a salacious Caucasian".