prude
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Nobody wants to be unsophisticated, or a prude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
I like to make jokes, I like to have all this bravado, but I’m really kind of a prude and shy.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 3, 2024
Anthony Comstock, the chief prude for whom the act is named, was an enthusiastic book-banner and suffragist-opposer.
From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2024
Rivera’s not a prude; he will utter an expletive into the microphone if the occasion calls for it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
But my mother wasn’t a prude; she was just afraid of what would happen if she let herself run loose, even for a day.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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
“You are talking to two of the biggest prudes in the world,” Ms. Ashford said.
From New York Times ● Jan. 13, 2014
They sound like prudes, which, considering their oeuvre at Truman, strikes me as more than a little ironic.
From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove
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