prudish

Example Sentences

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After her appointment by Rishi Sunak's government, Baroness Bertin made it clear she would not be approaching the topic from a prudish or disapproving position.

From BBC • Feb. 27, 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

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’m much more prudish than most of my friends. I don’t see my work as a breakout or brave — I see it as part of a lineage.”

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 26, 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