What's the difference between flirtatious and prudish?

Flirtatious


Definition:

Example Sentences:

  • (1) If the news that Wendi Deng had joined her husband Rupert Murdoch on Twitter and promptly engaged in flirtatious banter with the likes of Ricky Gervais seemed too good to be true, that's because it was.
  • (2) The slick Foxtons website shows packs of tanned, beaming, sometimes flirtatious staff holding beers, up mountains, playing beach volleyball.
  • (3) Scuccia, who is from Sicily, has sung alongside Kylie Minogue and Ricky Martin, while, a flirtatious panel judge, Italian rapper J-Ax, said she could be the "holy water" to his "devil".
  • (4) Several witnesses described Maureen McDonnell’s relationship with the wealthy vitamin executive as inappropriate and flirtatious.
  • (5) Johnson’s barrister, Orlando Pownall QC, wrote in a legal note shortly after the midfielder’s arrest that he admitted kissing the 15-year-old and sending her flirtatious messages.
  • (6) In Mansfield Park , Thomas Bertram boastfully describes his flirtatious behaviour in Ramsgate with the younger Miss Sneyd, whoever she be.
  • (7) But the Tory MP Penny Mordaunt said the Lib Dems were motivated by "spite, pettiness and self-interest" and were making "flirtatious glances" to Labour as potential coalition partners following the 2015 poll.
  • (8) Although she always rejected single issue politics as a distraction from socialism (like Margaret Thatcher, she was a politician who was also a woman - tough, flirtatious, vain, often hot tempered, capable of tears in moments of drama - rather than a woman politician) and she brutally dismissed recent attempts to make Westminster a kinder, gentler place, her most enduring achievements came on behalf of women.
  • (9) In person she's just as impressive – quick, perceptive and teasingly flirtatious – but she also reveals a vulnerability that takes not just me but herself by surprise.
  • (10) "For this reason, the question I am asked most frequently is why am I so against the 'harmlessly flirtatious' piropo .
  • (11) Weiner reportedly admitted to the Daily Mail that he had engaged in flirtatious exchanges with the girl but did not comment further on any of the specific allegations.
  • (12) In a fortnight’s time, the federal court was to begin deciding if the weirdly flirtatious relationship between the gay former PR for a strawberry farm and the then federal parliamentary Speaker, Peter Slipper, constituted sexual harassment.
  • (13) I will regularly post flirtatious comments on your timeline wall for all your Facebook friends to see."
  • (14) A rare and expensive lot up for auction on eBay this week provides epistolary evidence that the man-who-will-be-king was once a hot-blooded young sailor with an eye for the ladies and a knack for flirtatious correspondence.
  • (15) Other hit silent(ish) comedies included award-winning Aussie show The Hermitude of Angus , Ecstatic, and, best of all, a blissful set from that flirtatious clown Doctor Brown .
  • (16) She is the impeccably connected journalist turned television chef whose gourmet recipes and flirtatious on-screen presence earned her the nickname the "domestic goddess" and generated a fortune estimated at £15m.
  • (17) So it is with Boris Johnson , the most flirtatious practitioner of political brinksmanship in living memory.
  • (18) For mums and dads, the only option is to stand firm, turn off the telly, and try to persuade your issue that what they really want is a nice bit of cheddar, and not a spreadable cheese product flogged by a flirtatious cartoon farm animal.
  • (19) While the Bond films have moved away from the series' more cartoonish roots in the last decade, recent 007 entry Skyfall did reintroduce such classic characters as gadget man Q and M's flirtatious secretary, Moneypenny.
  • (20) As any journalist who has met her will attest, Courtney Love's brand of conversation is smart, funny and frank, but wildly unpredictable, leaping from one topic to another as dramatically as her mood changes: she can go from flirtatious to furious to diffident and back again in the space of a minute.

Prudish


Definition:

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

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Much of his work – including National Lampoon's Animal House (1978), Meatballs (1979) and Ghostbusters (1984), all of which he co-wrote, and Caddyshack (1980), which he co-wrote and directed – changed the course of US film comedy, even if the prudish might argue that it was not for the better.
  • (2) This can be surprising to the relatively prudish mainstream of previous generations.
  • (3) Read says that while his father operated in louche artistic circles and had "ditched his first wife to be with my mother, slightly in the liberated spirit of Shelley or Gauguin", he had been born and brought up in the 19th century and deep down had a "rather prudish" approach to life.
  • (4) Recent news regarding Ira Sachs’ new film Love Is Strange is a prime example of how age classification systems can smother art under bigoted and prudish anxieties.
  • (5) Emin's beautiful body is her one great idea, but I suspect that she is rather prudish, which means that there are limits to the use she can make of her body and its rackety past.
  • (6) I worry because I find myself siding with Don over Megan and given the selfish, prudish, treachorous, patriarchal figure he is I know this ain't right.
  • (7) Apart from physiological flushes represented by emotional or prudish blushing, post-prandial flushes and menopausal hot flushes, various pathologic flushes exist of various etiologies: endocrine, dysmetabolic, histaminic and iatrogenic.
  • (8) Liekens has said the UK has been "too prudish for too long" about sex education.
  • (9) For a humorist who came on the scene in the 1960s, Coren was surprisingly prudish.
  • (10) In the UK, we are still slightly discomfited by the idea of baring all in a confessional essay, partly, one presumes, because we are restrained by a sort of cultural prudishness, but also because we do not wish to appear self-indulgent.
  • (11) I had friends who lost their virginity at 13, and I’d be like, ‘Disgusting!’” Despite her prudishness, as soon as Peake started to act, she was stereotyped.
  • (12) I half shouted to a rep, ‘I’m not singing that’ and he said ‘yeah it is a bit naughty’, as if I was being prudish.
  • (13) I am asking, if Christianity managed to imbue Anglo-Saxon cultures with this prudishness, why did the moral strictures of any other religious system not imbue their cultures?"
  • (14) "You don't think Islam has had just as much an effect on prudishness?"
  • (15) Facebook has been accused of a lot of things, from riding roughshod over people’s privacy to prudishly censoring the most innocuous of photographs.
  • (16) She will insist she is not arguing for "prudishness or hankering after some rose-tinted picture of childhood", but for families and children that can negotiate issues of sexuality with dignity and respect.
  • (17) It is hard to imagine a scandal of Claridge’s proportions kicking off over here – not because Americans are less prudish than Brits, but because breastfeeding in public is clearly just a scheduling issue, and if New Yorkers understand anything it’s the Primacy of the Schedule.
  • (18) 'I'm really not prudish about doing nudity,' she continues.
  • (19) Galleguillos said his tweets – calling Rentería a “weeping negrito” and attacking “prudish, timid hypocrites” – were sent “in good faith … I called him negrito with affection, caringly, because he cried, the man cried.
  • (20) Experts warned that Seek McCartney’s approval should not necessarily be hailed as a sign of a relaxation of censors’ usually prudish attitudes.