prudish

Example Sentences

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"The album is not for any pearl clutchers," she told CBS News, with reference to prim, prudish or easily offended people.

From BBC • Aug. 29, 2025

"Weirdly, considering I'm quite prudish, I've found it really fun tapping into this world," she told the BBC.

From BBC • Jul. 27, 2023

Yet there are some subjects that we are far more prudish about than our historical counterparts.

From Salon • Jan. 30, 2023

The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective.

From New York Times • May 27, 2022

I’ll tell you how we handled this problem; you may find it unseemly of me to bring it up, but I’m not so prudish about matters of this kind.

From "The Diary of a Young Girl" by Anne Frank