prudish - use in sentences

Modifies a noun

  • attitude: And of course the biggest " pull " was the Western prudish attitudes toward bodily matters, which of course applied to the foreigners.
  • Victorian: He was able to achieve significant favor among the prudish middle-class Victorians for strongly opposing the use of nude models in his artistic work.
  • value: However Spencer was a product of his time and was influenced by the prudish Victorian values of the society he lived in.

Modifying Another Word

  • very: American viewers, overall - with Red Dwarf being a possible exception - are very prudish.
  • so: Who'd have thought Ron would be so prudish?
  • rather: There was a lot of support for that Clause, especally among the rather prudish middle-classes.

Used with adjective complement

  • become: Magazines, little by little, showed pictures of naked men, the movies became less prudish.

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