antipruritic | (noun) a substance that relieves or prevents itching | - |
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imprudence | (noun) a lack of caution in practical affairs | - |
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imprudent | (adjective) not prudent or wise | - |
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(adjective) lacking wise self-restraint | - |
imprudently | (adverb) in an imprudent manner | - |
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jurisprudence | (noun) the branch of philosophy concerned with the law and the principles that lead courts to make the decisions they do | Synonyms: law, legal philosophy |
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(noun) the collection of rules imposed by authority | Synonyms: law |
jurisprudential | (adjective) relating to the science or philosophy of law or a system of laws | - |
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jurisprudentially | (adverb) in respect to jurisprudence or the science or philosophy of law | - |
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prude | (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: puritan |
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prudence | (noun) discretion in practical affairs | - |
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(noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, discretion |
prudent | (adjective) careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment | - |
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prudential | (adjective) arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters | - |
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prudently | (adverb) in a prudent manner | Synonyms: providentially |
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prudery | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudishness |
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prudish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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prudishly | (adverb) in a prudish manner | Synonyms: puritanically |
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prudishness | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery |
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prune | (noun) dried plum | - |
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(verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
(verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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(noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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(noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
pruno | (noun) a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates | - |
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prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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pruriency | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience |
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prurient | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious |
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pruriently | (adverb) in a prurient manner | - |
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prurigo | (noun) chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching | - |
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pruritus | (noun) an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.) | - |
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sheeprun | (noun) farm devoted to raising sheep | Synonyms: sheepwalk |
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spruce | (adjective) marked by up-to-dateness in dress and manners | Synonyms: dapper, dashing, jaunty, natty, raffish, rakish, snappy, spiffy |
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(noun) any coniferous tree of the genus Picea | - |
(noun) light soft moderately strong wood of spruce trees; used especially for timbers and millwork | - |
(verb) dress and groom with particular care, as for a special occasion | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spruce up |
(verb) make neat, smart, or trim | Synonyms: slick up, smarten up, spiff up, spruce up, titivate, tittivate |
sprucely | (adverb) in a fashionable manner | Synonyms: modishly, smartly |
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spruceness | (noun) the state of being neat and smart and trim | Synonyms: neatness |
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sprue | (noun) a chronic disorder that occurs in tropical and non-tropical forms and in both children and adults; nutrients are not absorbed; symptoms include foul-smelling diarrhea and emaciation | Synonyms: psilosis, tropical sprue |
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