Example Sentences

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Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 1, 2023

Prudes and libertines kept suing, and courts kept ruling — and sometimes back-stepping — but the trend toward greater permissiveness was irreversible.

From Washington Post • Dec. 16, 2019

Prudes owe mutch ov their success to their inability to find enny temptashuns, and coquetts are made more viscious by flatterys.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.

But the young Lady as she was strictly Virtuous, never gave way to none of these Freedoms, but in the Company of her Landlady or her Daughter, who were both Prudes.

From Memoirs of Major Alexander Ramkins (1718) by Defoe, Daniel

Florella desires to know if there are any Books written against Prudes, and intreats me, if there are, to give them a Place in my Library.

From The Spectator, Volume 1 Eighteenth-Century Periodical Essays by Addison, Joseph