prude
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“Trust them. Don’t, for lack of a better word, be a prude about it.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Nobody wants to be unsophisticated, or a prude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
“I’ve been reminded that I’m a prude of an English boy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
Anthony Comstock, a 19th-century crusader against sexual liberty, was mocked as a prude in his own time, but wielded real power.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
Ella and I badmouthed her to each other: She’s such a prude, she’s so this, she’s so that.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
Over the centuries, the Wife of Bath has been swinging her hips through Western culture, knocking princesses off their pedestals, shocking prudes and clearing a path for savvy, witty women.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 15, 2023
From the start of arguments, it’s clear that the current bench is divided into prudes and cool kids.
From Slate ● Apr. 15, 2019
If 2018 prudes want to interpret the lyrics as something else; the problem obviously lies in their own minds not in the original lyrics.
From Washington Times ● Dec. 12, 2018
After all, the American public was at that time such a clean public, such a naïve nation of holier-than-thou prudes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2016
“And those people calling you a prude were prudes once, too,” she adds.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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