prudish

Example Sentences

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The display eclipsed the return of garden gnomes to an event so prudish that the lawn ornaments have been allowed just once before in its 113-year history, and only then because it was for charity.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 25, 2026

"Weirdly, considering I'm quite prudish, I've found it really fun tapping into this world," she told the BBC.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023

Charlie and Emma are a product of another age that's somehow both looser and more prudish.

From Salon • Feb. 27, 2023

The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective.

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

Only time, a prudish veil of hours, prevented her brother from seeing her as she had been.

From "Atonement" by Ian McEwan