Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Marked by or exhibiting the characteristics of a prude; priggish.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Having the character or manner of a prude; affecting extreme propriety of behavior; also, characteristic of a prude; prim.
- Excessively formal or precise; rigid; stiff; severe.
Wiktionary
- adj. of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue
WordNet 3.0
- adj. exaggeratedly proper
Examples
“Hilarious Ad About Dirty, Dirty Money (kinda NSFW) (WARNING: Not meant for kids, or for adult viewing while in prudish work environments).”
“BLOOM: Yes, he is called prudish for considering it a crime for a 43 - year-old man to have sex with a 13-year-old girl.”
“He was religious and prudish, which is one of the main reasons why the novels of his era do not feature any sex.”
“Bernarda had arrived in Barcelona shortly after the war, fleeing from poverty and from a father who on a good day would beat her up and tell her she was stupid, ugly, and a slut, and on a bad one would corner her in the pigsty, drunk, and fondle her until she sobbed with terror - at which point he'd let her go, calling her prudish and stuck up, like her mother.”
“(I put the perverse in quotations because I fear to be called prudish by Freudians.)”
“And, most definitely, there is the looking glass trained on an era always described as prudish and restrained -- a welcome revelation that Victorian values may have plagued society at large, but couldn't entirely penetrate life behind closed doors. the controversy Kinsey's work is plagued with.”
“Or has everyone become so intoxicated by the current cultural Kool-Aid that we have to fear the stigma of being labeled "prudish," or "uncool," if we question whether our girls and boys should grow up thinking that violent sexual exploitation and domination of women is the 21st century norm?”
The Huffington Post: What's Next From Lady Gaga, a Snuff Film?
“The sociology of "prudish" behavior within families is too lengthy for this post.”
On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...
“I know that by the rest of the world's standards we are 'prudish' when it comes to sexuality.”
“Feminist author Germaine Greer declared the show "prudish," while a columnist for The Observer waxed lyrical over the traditional household duties it celebrates, like the "mournful, almost Shakespearean dragging of the vacuum cleaner around, as if waltzing with a dead body.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘prudish’.
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pedantic words
Busie old foole, unruly Sunne,..Sawcy pedantique wretch, goe chide Late schooleboyes.
pedagogic, schoolmasterly, academic, bookish, donnish, dry as dust, dryasdust, pedantic, erudite, formal, inkhorn, learned and 65 more...
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Miss Sunshine
she's such a joy.
bereaved, bitter, cheerless, dejected, depressed, despairing, despondent, disconsolate, dismal, distressed, doleful, downcast and 405 more...
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CCW
Commonly Confused Words
wreath, wreathe, titillate, titivate, proscribe, prescribe, pedal, peddle, mettle, metal, palette, palate and 132 more...
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Vocab++
Words as I learn them.
fetid, mezzanine, hiatus, austerity, subliminal, resplendent, implacable, impugn, debase, exiguous, cirque, holster and 2538 more...
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A spoonful of sugar
Words I should learn/I want to learn/I just learned, with a quotation to help the medicine go down.
approbation, assuage, chicanery, abscond, effrontery, enervation, equivocate, ennui, aftertaste, filibuster, perfunctory, abide and 391 more...
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stpeter's Words
abase, abasement, abashed, abdicate, aberrant, abeyance, abhor, abhorrent, abide, abject, ablation, abnegation and 3536 more...
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words
craven, perennial, incumbent, infraction, truancy, foreboding, missgiving, understudy, upkeep, withdrawal, retreat, underscore and 95 more...
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adjectives
sartorial, saucy, wieldy, wuthering, dilapidated, rough-and-ready, flabbergasted, ravishing, seminal, snooty, galore, scrumptious and 386 more...
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Lexicon
Non Descript
somber, conundrum, narcissist, ludicrous, garble, slouch, cower, allure, boor, timorous, flinch, mendacity and 34 more...
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