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

Anthony Comstock, the chief prude for whom the act is named, was an enthusiastic book-banner and suffragist-opposer.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2024

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

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

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