prude
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“Trust them. Don’t, for lack of a better word, be a prude about it.”
From Salon ● Sep. 20, 2026
Nobody wants to be unsophisticated, or a prude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
Anthony Comstock, a 19th-century crusader against sexual liberty, was mocked as a prude in his own time, but wielded real power.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2023
“I’m not a prude, at least not as a writer. I didn’t write anything here that I wouldn’t write with my name attached,” said Obioma.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 27, 2022
Ella and I badmouthed her to each other: She’s such a prude, she’s so this, she’s so that.
From "Wonder" by R. J. Palacio
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
Georgians, we believe, were smutty, and Victorians were prudes and hypocrites.
From The Guardian ● May 18, 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
Evolutionary ornithologist Richard O. Prum says the theory was distorted by Victorian prudes.
From Slate ● Jun. 4, 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
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