How to Use prudish in a Sentence

prudish

adjective

• But the idea of young people being prudish now is so warped to me.
  — Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, 17 Sep. 2023
• The location is a farm in the middle of nowhere, a place far from prying and prudish eyes.
  — David Fear, Rolling Stone, 18 Mar. 2022
• Nathan Lane is probably not the most prudish actor in the world.
  — Chris Willman, Variety, 8 Oct. 2023
• First of all, and this may sound prudish, but pump the breaks on intimacy.
  — Author: Wayne and Wanda, Anchorage Daily News, 21 Mar. 2021
• For a priest to make such a comment—somehow both prudish and filthy-minded ...
  — Emma Donoghue, The Atlantic, 12 May 2020
• The uptight decorum and prudish manners of the era are reimagined through a modern lens.
  — Los Angeles Times, 18 Nov. 2021
• Such moves are an affront to women and make the church look not just prudish but also extreme.
  — Gordon Monson, The Salt Lake Tribune, 30 Dec. 2022
• That included some prudish cuts — don’t look at Joey in a bathrobe with Ross’ picture stuck on his groin!
  — Los Angeles Times, 28 May 2021
• Think men cast as Mary, the plain and prudish Bennet sister, and as the snobbish Miss Bingley.
  — Mary Jo Murphy, New York Times, 29 June 2017
• And this is not to say Single's Inferno was prudish or overly chaste.
  — Andy Meek, BGR, 11 Jan. 2022
• Over the years, Jane Austen’s books have gotten labeled as stuffy or prudish, when in fact they were written to be thrilling, romantic, and more than a little horny.
  — Anne Cohen, refinery29.com, 21 Feb. 2020
• Because maybe people were still being prudish back then...
  — refinery29.com, 1 May 2022
• Boxing, once both celebrated and reviled as the most primal of all sports, has been made to look a little prudish, a little repressed.
  — Jacob Stern, The Atlantic, 18 Nov. 2021
• The men in her movies may have made fun of her ostensible chastity, but her characters were not prudish so much as selective.
  — New York Times, 27 May 2022
• After the Midwestern audience failed to appreciate her work, Duncan scolded the prudish crowd from the stage and told them to read more Walt Whitman.
  — Ian Beacock, The New Republic, 26 Oct. 2021
• Twitter was too text-heavy to properly showcase erotic art, and Facebook was too prudish (and not nearly anonymous enough).
  — Lux Alptraum, The Verge, 5 Dec. 2018
• Despite her prudish persona, Lili has no qualms about urinating in the middle of the street, much to her granddaughter’s embarrassment.
  — Carlos Aguilar, Variety, 27 Jan. 2024
• Kennedy took it upon himself to be the Great Liberator, removing the shackles from a prudish and — in his view — unjust society.
  — Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, 28 June 2018
• Prudes are going to be prudish, so no point in trying to appease them in a show that’s all about the havoc that’s wrought when human biology is denied by moralistic zealots.
  — Charles McNulty, Los Angeles Times, 1 Nov. 2023
• The very fact that Underwood had to hide his monstrosity now seems quaint, even prudish – a comforting wish fulfillment if ever there was one.
  — Patrick Blanchfield, New Republic, 2 Nov. 2017
• But other roles from the decade—many of them made by Johnson’s production company, Seven Bucks–were both consistently prudish and racially all over the place.
  — Lauren Michele Jackson, The New Yorker, 29 Oct. 2022
• Greeley, a prudish latter-day New England Puritan, looked on in horror.
  — James M. Lundberg, Smithsonian Magazine, 6 Mar. 2020
• Since finding fame on the show, Mr Zhou had shown no inclination to upset prudish censors by returning to his gangsta-rapper roots.
  — The Economist, 25 Jan. 2018
• Only then did the twin’s reputation flip, and people began to see separate sleeping as prudish and old-fashioned.
  — Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, 29 Aug. 2019
• And by his own account, he’s hardly led a prudish lifestyle while battling for conservative causes.
  — Alan Fram, Anchorage Daily News, 3 Apr. 2021
• And by his own account, he's hardly led a prudish lifestyle while battling for conservative causes.
  — Alan Fram, Star Tribune, 3 Apr. 2021
• With high necklines and long, full sleeves, rendered in fluid fabrics like silk georgette and crêpe de chine, these are not prudish throwbacks but blank canvases for designer whimsy.
  — Kimberly Chrisman-Campbell, WSJ, 14 Sep. 2017
• One result of Mr Xi’s efforts to tighten the party’s control over the media has been that public discussion of prostitution has become even more prudish.
  — The Economist, 5 July 2018
• Even if the past has a rich erotic literature, contemporary literature is less prudish than in the past, with the exception of Russia, which has never been freed from prudery.
  — Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, 28 Oct. 2019
• The final decade and a half of Lubitsch’s career unfolded under the cloud of the dreaded Production Code, with its prudish horror of sexuality and its callow fear of politics.
  — Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 8 Aug. 2022

Last Updated: 11 Nov 2024