prudish

Speech parts

1. prudish - Adjective

2. prudish - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

victorian prissy prim puritanical strait-laced priggish square-toed straitlaced straight-laced tight-laced straightlaced puritan bluenose prude prig
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Antonyms

able off provide strong blue horny
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Related terms

prudery prudishness

Examples

In terms of being naked, I'm not very prudish. Heidi Klum

Prudishness is pretense of innocence without innocence. Women have to remain prudish as long as men are sentimental, dense, and evil enough to demand of them eternal innocence and lack of education. For innocence is the only thing which can ennoble lack of education. Friedrich Schlegel

I don't even like watching sex scenes in movies. I have a slight prudish side to me. Portia de Rossi

I don't wear a bikini on the beach. I walk around my house in pyjamas. I haven't seen myself naked in the mirror for probably a decade. I'm very prudish. Carey Mulligan

I've never been prudish. Jenny Eclair

The BBC was known as Auntie suggesting someone prudish and Victorian and that she still is on some days. On others she's a champagne-soaked floozie, her skirts in disarray, her mind in the gutter, and the mixture can be quite wonderful. Morley Safer

Close letter words and terms

prudhommie prudification prudify prudishly prudishness prudism