(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.
Uptight
Definition:
Example Sentences:
(1) He was not in the mood for elaboration, with abundant short answers and uptight reactions to the topics that were suggested for discourse.
(2) I would be flabbergasted that if anyone bothered to test the loos of some of our most uptight rightwing papers they didn't find some traces of Class A drugs.
(3) Surely the whole point of The Heat's dynamic in the first place is that Sandra Bullock's character is skinny and prissy and uptight and Melissa McCarthy's character is bigger and bolshier and her diametric opposite?
(4) Even then, I kept thinking, 'Do I have to be so uptight for so long?'
(5) Immediately before and at intervals up to four hours after drug ingestion, patients rated pain severity, pain relief, the tense and uptight feeling, and muscle stiffness.
(6) City's Mancini, following a series of nervy, half-hearted predecessors less suited to the strange, monumental and messy task of creating a football team in opposition to the extortionate Reds, and remaking history – which Ferguson understood with his own particular combative cunning – has this purpose too, this instinctive perception of how to succeed by channelling uptight regional mentality as well as introducing fresh, resourceful outside skills.
(7) Until Keith came along, people were very uptight about eating out, and he helped us to chill out about it."
(8) Based on the 007-style adventures of the eponymous heroine, the new flick will unfold in a similar vein to The Heat, which sees McCarthy's foul-mouthed Boston cop pair up with an uptight FBI agent (Sandra Bullock).
(9) 'When it comes to their bodies, women are uptight.'
(10) They have low self-esteem and confidence just because our culture teaches us to be so confined and uptight.
(11) Yes, he's bad, but he's charming to people 95% of the time, and his colleagues [in the scam] are so fun, and funny, and yet I have to be this uptight slappy-face.
(12) Due Date – from The Hangover's director, Todd Phillips – has line-for-line one of the sharpest scripts of the bunch but is almost scuppered by the sour note that crops up continually, stirred up by Robert Downey Jr 's uncharacteristically uptight performance as a dad-to-be.
(13) She is bossy, domineering, abrasive, secretive, uptight and petty – but what really gets me is her serial use of covert, sneaky methods to get what she wants – often at my expense.
(14) Everydaysexism.com has become enormously popular because women get so used to street harassment and sexism that it's become normalised and you're seen as uptight if you draw attention to it.
(15) Everyone works that effortless just-got-out-of-bed look, but they are uptight about their coffee.
(16) The woman who would have been Diana's daughter-in-law is undoubtedly experiencing many of the pressures Diana was facing, but is probably better equipped to deal with them, with a more relaxed and media-savvy sense, and what appears to be a less frantically uptight and solemn attitude than that surrounding Charles and Diana in private.
(17) "I'm sure the reason she did it was because people thought she was kind of uptight," says Batali, who has known her for 10 years.
(18) Lead actor Tatiana Maslany plays eight (and counting) cloned versions of herself, flitting seamlessly between characters including a cop, a Ukrainian sociopath, and an uptight soccer mom with a drink problem.
(19) Chamcha, the inauthentic, uptight and elitist migrant to London, constantly mocked for these qualities while in Bombay, is allowed to redeem himself, while the indigenously rooted and social-climbing villain cannot escape the deserts of his villainy.
(20) Talented and beautiful, sure, but also perceived as uptight, erudite, perhaps even royal in their dispositions.