What's the difference between minx and prude?

Minx


Definition:

  • (n.) A pert or a wanton girl.
  • (n.) A she puppy; a pet dog.
  • (n.) The mink; -- called also minx otter.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "It's not intentional, but it can have a detrimental effect on international agreements," Minx said.
  • (2) There were features, I vaguely remember, especially in Minx which had particularly good writing.
  • (3) Dr Minx Marple (@MinxMarple) Seeing lots of poor news for the North East in my #npo stream.
  • (4) Obliging countries to cut carbon emissions beyond their national borders is fraught with political and practical difficulties, but this should not stop import-related emissions being taken into consideration in negotiations to cut emissions, Minx said.
  • (5) Jan Minx, an expert in environmental economics at the Stockholm Environment Institute at the University of York, said the study's system of attributing emissions - based on which country's consumption causes emissions rather than the country where the emissions are released - can help identify when international agreements to cut greenhouse gas emissions are being undermined.
  • (6) and its sister magazines, Just 17 (as it was then), Minx and Nova (and, in very different ways, Empire and Smash Hits) were my gospels during my pre-teen and early teen years.
  • (7) She can be gay, pathetic, lively, stunned - part minx, part poet, part sex-kitten.

Prude


Definition:

  • (a.) A woman of affected modesty, reserve, or coyness; one who is overscrupulous or sensitive; one who affects extraordinary prudence in conduct and speech.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) A man of such ferocious spirit should not be remembered as a reactionary prude.
  • (2) Only a prude would expect their politicians not to exaggerate.
  • (3) I am no prude but often when I am walking home I see guys staggering about peeing randomly into gardens, bus stops, doorways.
  • (4) Nor does she pretend to be a prude or indulge in false shame.
  • (5) She's no prude, but found them disrespectful and out of place, but the male producer claimed they were just a joke, part of the "friendly banter".
  • (6) She doesn’t mention any grudge against Schnabel, just a generalised rage at having been “shelved and discredited by people who didn’t like that I was deeply honest [and] an unavailable prude who, at times, had a big mouth”.
  • (7) Breastfeeding moms get harassed, too – our culture expects women to cover up their “dirty pillows” for the sake of the children and the prudes on Facebook or sensationalizes the choice to not to do so.
  • (8) For a moment, Swift seemed in danger of typecasting herself as a victimised prude.
  • (9) "If he had said I was a prude I don't think I could have stayed with him."
  • (10) We have to ask ourselves, then: does this prude really have what it takes to be a world champion?
  • (11) People didn’t like that I was deeply honest and an unavailable prude who, at times, had a big mouth Yet she still had currency enough to win the prize role of Vicki Vale in Tim Burton’s Batman.
  • (12) However, we know he was a prude and I perceive him, to a certain degree, as a prick and smug and that is where we start.