prude

“Trust them. Don’t, for lack of a better word, be a prude about it.”

From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026

I’d rather be called a prude than acquiesce to society’s slow drift into vice.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 14, 2026

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

She is not a professorial prude, however, oblivious to shifting realities.

From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021

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

And the cheekiness of the choice implicitly painted those protesting Wallen as cultural prudes, as if he hadn’t been the agent of his own undoing.

From New York Times ● Jan. 20, 2022

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

Evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum says the theory was distorted by Victorian prudes.

From Slate ● Jun. 4, 2018

Anybody who begrudged her that beer given the conflagration raiding her leg would qualify for a hall of fame of prudes.

From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2018

They sound like prudes, which, considering their oeuvre at Truman, strikes me as more than a little ironic.

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove