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

I’ll make the season frightful myself with picks from around the world that include a prude mutant, a vengeful witch, a tortured musician and a demonic dinner.

From New York Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

“And those people calling you a prude were prudes once, too,” she adds.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

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

Turns out the prudes are right, and too much screen time will fry you from the inside.

From New York Times ● Feb. 25, 2021

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

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

From "Drama High" by Michael Sokolove