adjective
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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I think that is a prudish approach.
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It wasn't that they were prudish , I could tell they'd heard it before.
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Purists were quick to counter-attack accusations that the legislation threatened individual liberty and encouraged prudish self-satisfaction.
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Take the case of the prudish Mr Parkinson, who attended the butterfly ballet.
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These strict and prudish ideals were those of the austere Hejaz merchants.
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They are also peculiarly prudish and voyeuristic.
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We Brits are terribly prudish and you may be, as I was, a little uneasy at first.