Prurient (adj)
prew-ree-ant
Having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters, especially the sexual activity of others.
Late 16th century (in the sense ‘having a mental itching’): from Latin prurient- ‘itching, longing’ and ‘being wanton’, from the verb prurire.
Example sentences
“She had been the subject of prurient curiosity.”
Praetorian (adj) (noun) pri-taw-ree-un of or relating to a praetor (a magistrate in the Roman republic). a soldier of the Praetorian Guard (Roman imperial army) First recorded in 1375–1425; late…