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pruriency

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

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

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

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

Robert Louis Stevenson calls love a mixture of pruriency and curiosity, which suggests a horrid itch.

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On this page you'll find 85 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pruriency, such as: admiration, amativeness, ambition, appetite, ardor, and aspiration.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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