(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.
Prudery
Definition:
(n.) The quality or state of being prudish; excessive or affected scrupulousness in speech or conduct; stiffness; coyness.
Example Sentences:
(1) Who would've predicted that instead of laughing at Victorian prudery, many men still expect their sexual encounters to entail pudenda, pins and pits as marble smooth as those of young Ruskin's imagination?
(2) Despite government prudery, the dramatic decrease in rates of rectal gonorrhea in New York and San Francisco indicate that homosexuals are listening to appeals to practice "safe sex."
(3) He picked apart politicians, living and dead; mocked religion and prudery; opposed wars from Vietnam to Iraq; and insulted his peers like no other, once observing that the three saddest words in the English language were Joyce Carol Oates.
(4) As this organ resembles the letter Omega of the Greek alphabet those who believe in prudery speak of it as the omega-shaped organ.
(5) In his book on theatre censorship, Politics, Prudery and Perversions , Nicholas de Jongh suggests it was the violence of Bond's "real-life, demotic speech" that horrified his audience.
(6) Mann was surprised to see an art critic using the vocabulary of a 10-year-old, but not by the underlying prejudice: "There's a new prudery around death.