(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.
Prudent
Definition:
(a.) Sagacious in adapting means to ends; circumspect in action, or in determining any line of conduct; practically wise; judicious; careful; discreet; sensible; -- opposed to rash; as, a prudent man; dictated or directed by prudence or wise forethought; evincing prudence; as, prudent behavior.
(a.) Frugal; economical; not extravagant; as, a prudent woman; prudent expenditure of money.
Example Sentences:
(1) Based on these observations, the authors think it prudent to remove such dressings before performing leukocyte imaging.
(2) The potential benefits in terms of more rapid return to work, maintenance of the patient's psychosocial integrity, and modification of natural history of the disease make the institution of a cardiac rehabilitation program a prudent activity for a practitioner, clinic, or hospital.
(3) Regardless of the exact dose per fraction chosen, it seems prudent to use relatively low doses per fraction initially to maximize the chance of detecting any benefit inherent in the use of neutrons, before exploring increased doses for reasons of improved cost-effectiveness.
(4) One would be prudent to avoid marijuana during pregnancy, just as one would do with most other drugs not essential to life or well-being.
(5) It seems prudent to avoid hypertriglyceridemia secondary to intravenous fat emulsions, as this alone is a cause of pancreatitis, albeit uncommon, in patients with abnormalities of triglyceride metabolism.
(6) For the present, prudent clinical practice should include avoidance of whole blood, fresh frozen plasma, and platelet transfusions and greater reliance on autologous blood transfusions.
(7) The author suggests that the most prudent course would be to direct health care providers to accept family decisions unless it appears that the family is acting out of ignorance or in bad faith, in which case the decision would be referred to a hospital ethicist or ethics committee and then--only if there were good grounds to suspect ignorance or bad faith--to judicial review.
(8) Based on the currently available data, it seems prudent to diagnose diabetes mellitus only if fasting hyperglycemia is present.
(9) From what we know about food adequacy, preparation, and storage, the notion that the postulated "primitive" diet was generally adequate, safe, and prudent can be rejected.
(10) Taking out such a deal was, in their view, tantamount to getting into bed with the devil – and certainly out of the question for a prudent financial journalist.
(11) It may be prudent to obtain a drug history and urine screen for cocaine before instituting indomethacin therapy for preterm labor or polyhydramnios.
(12) Because of the risks of increasing late effects, either due to direct thermal damage or thermo-radiosensitization of normal tissues, it is not prudent to proceed with such testing in sites where there is a risk of excessive normal tissue heating.
(13) In such cases especially prudent care is required, for the prognosis may be poor.
(14) The National Cancer Institute (NCI) believes that the potential for dietary changes to reduce the risk of cancer is considerable and that the existing scientific data provide evidence that is sufficiently consistent to warrant prudent interim dietary guidelines that will promote good health and reduce the risk of some types of cancer.
(15) Three cases of primary adenocarcinoma of the Fallopian tube have been treated at the Gynecology Department of Hospital A. C. Camargo, Fundación A. Prudente, São Paulo, between 1972-1987.
(16) For this reason it recommends that banks provide a separate set of accounts drawn up on "prudent principles".
(17) The incorporation of interference into niche theory clarifies the competitive phenomenon of unstable equilibrium points, excess density compensation on islands, competitive avoidance by escape in time and space, the persistence of the "prudent predator," and the magnitude of the difference between the size of a species' fundamental niche and its realized niche.
(18) It increases in relative importance along with improvement in socioeconomic and environmental conditions and in association with prudent lifestyle.
(19) As drug-induced erythroid hypoplasia typically occurs after a relatively long period of dosing, it may be prudent in certain individuals to monitor the CBC at approximately bimonthly intervals after initiation of therapy.
(20) These results revealed specific shortcomings in the dietary habits of the CORIS population and emphasised the need for changes necessary to meet the requirements for a prudent diet.