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prud·ish | \ ˈprü-dish 
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Examples of prudish in a Sentence
by the prudish standards of the 19th century, any depiction of the nude was scandalous
Recent Examples on the Web 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.
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Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov, Harper's magazine, "Sex and Sensibility," 28 Oct. 2019 Only then did the twin’s reputation flip, and people began to see separate sleeping as prudish and old-fashioned.
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Lizz Schumer, Good Housekeeping, "Here's How a Sleep Divorce Can Improve Your Relationship," 29 Aug. 2019 Coolest Emerging Act: Wonderfully outrageous Chicago rapper CupCakKe isn’t for the prudish or easily offended.
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Blake Ryan, Billboard, "A Guide to Summer Music Festival Season 2019," 24 June 2019 Twitter was too text-heavy to properly showcase erotic art, and Facebook was too prudish (and not nearly anonymous enough).
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Lux Alptraum, The Verge, "How Tumblr went from being the most porn-friendly social media site to banning porn," 5 Dec. 2018 Kennedy took it upon himself to be the Great Liberator, removing the shackles from a prudish and — in his view — unjust society.
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Christine M. Flowers, Philly.com, "Justice Anthony Kennedy was 'Catholic conservatives' worst nightmare' on the Supreme Court | Christine Flowers," 28 June 2018 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.
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The Economist, "In China, sex work is being pushed back into the shadows," 5 July 2018 The New York Times is famously prudish, preferring whenever possible to use euphemisms.
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Jeet Heer, The New Republic, "Marco Rubio doesn’t like it when people report other people using the F-bomb.," 29 June 2018 Where Sjöwall and Wahlöö succeeded in deromanticizing crime and criminals, in his mission to condemn violence against women, Larsson has ended up lionizing its perpetrators by exaggerating the same old prudish tropes.
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Alice Bolin, Longreads, "The Daughter as Detective," 26 June 2018
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