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
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’ve been reminded that I’m a prude of an English boy.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 5, 2025
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
But my mother wasn’t a prude; she was just afraid of what would happen if she let herself run loose, even for a day.
From "Proud" by Ibtihaj Muhammad
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
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
It’s long been a cultural stereotype that Americans are prudes.
From New York Times ● Sep. 28, 2017
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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