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pruriently

pruriently adverb: in a prurient manner.

Adverb

pruriently (comparative more pruriently, superlative most pruriently)

  1. In a prurient manner.
    • One blonde proclaims, “If I meet a Negro I’ll have a Negro habit,” and the camera pruriently lingers on Ultra Violet making love with a black man and briefly on an outdoor session of interracial oral sex.2007 August 26, Gerald Howard, “Mailer Gets Hammered”, in New York Times

Forms of pruriently

comparativemore pruriently
superlativemost pruriently

Origin of pruriently

From prurient + -ly.

Questions about pruriently

What does pruriently mean?
Pruriently means in a prurient manner.
What part of speech is pruriently?
Pruriently is an adverb.

Words near pruriently in the dictionary

  1. prurience
  2. pruriences
  3. pruriencies
  4. pruriency
  5. prurient
  6. pruriently
  7. prurigenic
  8. pruriginous
  9. prurigo
  10. prurigo nodularis
  11. prurigoes

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