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What does prurient mean?

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Adjective
  1. Uneasy with desire; itching; especially, having a lascivious anxiety or propensity; lustful.
  2. Curious, especially inappropriately so.
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But just for a moment, prurient eyes were diverted from Sven-Goran Eriksson and Ulrika Jonsson to an altogether more gloomy European affair.
It's a film that focuses on ethics, be they pure or prurient, and how criminals and hoods can still require a sense of justice and fair play.
The febrile excitement of the story is sustained by the use of rapid action, exotic locales, and exaggerated passions, often cruel or prurient.
And if so, are the male viewer's prurient cravings exposed or validated by the esthetic delectability of such images?
In some ways, this biography should be applauded for its total absence of the prurient interest so common to most of its peers.
Media shift the responsibility for sensationalized coverage to a prurient citizenry's market demands for more blood, gore and opulence.

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