pruriency

1 They expect incidents, and, finding none, they seek for pruriency.

2 We believe, however, that the pruriency of Orientals, like the prudery of Occidentals, is in fact only an appearance.

3 We would still follow our Scribe here, were it not that his pruriency often reaches the edge.

4 There is none of that veiled pruriency which lurks underneath the more conventionally expressed, but really vicious sentiments that are to be found in too many novels of our own day.

5 He was resolved to attract notice at any price—by putting on cap and bells, and by the pruriency which stains his best work.

6 There never was an age in which pruriency in any guise could cease to be indecent.

7 And he is safeguarded against a certain pruriency that comes from wrongly stimulated and vilely fed curiosity.

8 The suppression of the sex instinct not infrequently results in a morbid pruriency in matters of sex, a distortion of all other interests and activities by a preoccupation with the frustrated sex motive.

9 Like a wild Bacchante, she led her chorus of bold spirits through the formal ways of French society, which in her view were bristling with pruriency and veiled with hypocrisy.

10 Antonyms: See undesigning. desire, n. longing, craving, will, aspiration, hankering, appetency, cupidity, impulse; request, petition, quest, entreaty; velleity; pruriency.

11 They know that most pruriency in the theatre derives from the old frustrations sealed up and festering in the mind of the onlooker who detects it.

12 The authors who knew they were lying sank almost as low as the nasty-nice purveyors of fake idealism and candied pruriency who fancied they were writing the truth.

13 He indulged in much pruriency of description, and occasional remarks savouring of infidelity.

14 So imperfect is still the education of the multitude that in these matters the ill-bred fanatic of pruriency usually gains his will.

15 What a humbug is this sensualist, who masks his pruriency back of poetic and philosophical symbols.

16 I have just now been interrupted by one of my new neighbours, who has made himself absolutely contemptible in my eyes, by his silly, garrulous pruriency.

17 However, he cannot avoid rubbing himself against this subject merely for the pleasure of stirring controversies, and gratifying a certain pruriency of taxation that seems to infect his blood.

18 His bodily senses grow acute, even to barren and inhuman pruriency; while his mental become proportionally obtuse.

19 Here is something to tell them that does not excite pruriency, that does set the full state of the case before them and represents probably all that can be said with assurance and safety.

20 Charity is the most mischievous sort of pruriency.

1 色欲

animalistic lust concupiscence prurience lechery animal passion

2 热望

ambitious aspiring greedy passion rage hunger aspiration itch craving thirst yen longing yearning prurience avidity pant crave aspire gasp yearn hanker ambition

3 渴望

keen eager anxious dying avid greedy thirsty impatient longing wishful yearning ravenous wistful passional athirst emulous sharp-set lickerish hungrily anxiety rage hunger aspiration itch craving lust thirst yen eagerness impatience solicitude prurience thirstiness hungriness long water die dream burn pant pine crave aspire hone ache starve weary groan yearn languish desire agog

4 好色

hot sensual erotic randy lustful salacious lascivious lecherous prurient lubricious libidinous concupiscent goatish ruttish satyric lickerish lasciviously pruriently sensuality eroticism lubricity lech prurience carnality lasciviousness lechery salacity lust carnalize rammish goat horny gallant lewd amorous evil-minded hircine carnal priapism erotism