prude
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Nobody wants to be unsophisticated, or a prude.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 20, 2025
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
Rivera’s not a prude; he will utter an expletive into the microphone if the occasion calls for it.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 2, 2022
She is not a professorial prude, however, oblivious to shifting realities.
From New York Times ● Feb. 11, 2021
But he told the joke well, and Perry, though he was in some measure a prude, could not help laughing, as always.
From "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote
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
Anybody who begrudged her that beer given the conflagration raiding her leg would qualify for a hall of fame of prudes.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 23, 2018
After all, the American public was at that time such a clean public, such a naïve nation of holier-than-thou prudes.
From New York Times ● Dec. 22, 2016
“And those people calling you a prude were prudes once, too,” she adds.
From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King
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