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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 of prudish from the Web
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Think men cast as Mary, the plain and prudish Bennet sister, and as the snobbish Miss Bingley.
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This is not the prudish queen of the history books.
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First Known Use of prudish
1717
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