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adv. - In a manner characterized by lust.

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  • You would appear to be ... just a wee bit ... pruriently obsessive about this.
  • It may seem fascinating to pruriently revel in the excesses of a once-pretty superstar.
  • It also surprises me that you are so reactively persistently and even pruriently homophobic.
  • The tale is told largely by middle-aged women who are at turns clinically matter-of-fact about and pruriently fascinated by what happened in Conyers.
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