Synonym: priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian. Similar words: prude, prudent, prudence, imprudent, imprudence, jurisprudence, erudite, rudiment. Meaning: ['pruːdɪʃ] adj. exaggeratedly proper.
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1 I'm not prudish but I think these photographs are obscene.
2 American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish.
3 I don't consider myself prudish but I do think the sex scenes in the film were a bit excessive.
4 They are also peculiarly prudish and voyeuristic.
5 I think that is a prudish approach.
6 We Brits are terribly prudish and you may be, as I was, a little uneasy at first.
7 It wasn't that they were prudish, I could tell they'd heard it before.
8 Take the case of the prudish Mr Parkinson, who attended the butterfly ballet.
9 These strict and prudish ideals were those of the austere Hejaz merchants.
10 Perhaps it was too prudish.
11 America's journalists can be a little prudish.
12 She was sexually not so much chaste as prudish.
13 She is sexually not so much chaste as prudish.
14 Americans retain a strong prudish streak.
15 No prudish worries inhibited the fathers of the French nation.
16 Purists were quick to counter-attack accusations that the legislation threatened individual liberty and encouraged prudish self-satisfaction.
17 What would have been the point of a lie that makes him out a prudish simpleton?
18 DOLLY: I'm not what you think,[www.Sentencedict.com] Corinne. I'm not prudish at all.
More similar words: prude, prudent, prudence, imprudent, imprudence, jurisprudence, erudite, rudiment, rudiments, protruding, rudimentary, nudist, dish, dishes, dish out, radish, reddish, Kaddish, dishevel, brandish, dishonor, faddish, fiendish, childish, dishonour, outlandish, dishonest, dishonesty, do the dishes, butter dish.