Sentence examples for prude as from inspiring English sources

"I wasn't really allowed to enter into their homes – people in Brittany are a bit shy, or prude," as she puts it.

In "Women, Sex, & Desire: Sometimes You Feel Like a Ho, Sometimes You Don't," which opened at the Joyce SoHo on Thursday evening, Ms. Mason explores sexual behavior using two extremes — the whore and the prude — as a starting point.

Among the e-mail messages that found their way into my computer were these: "I am far from a prude as most of you know, but this is very offensive to me!!

Luckily, those outside the U.S. aren't quite as prude as we are.

I'm not a prude: as you know, I'm not afraid of a lengthy lip lock, but on a scale of one to Bill Clinton I probably hover somewhere above Jimmy Carter and below Barack Obama.

"He loves," sneered a disapproving prude in 1618, "as far as sensual love can go".

Bluestocking is a "pedantic woman" (not to be confused with bluenose, which is found in the superb Merriam-Webster's Ninth Collegiate, to mean "one who advocates a rigorous moral code," and which most of us would call a "prude" or, as the Riverside says, "a puritanical person").

"We're not such a prude world as we used to be, but it's nice to know that I can help women enjoy their fantasies in a safe and consensual way".

When a curriculum constantly depicts men as lewd and domineering, and women as prude and submissive, New York needs an overhaul.

After the crushing of the rebel faction, a puritan widow, Bradshaw Julie Covingtonn), seeks her husband's mutilated corpse, a quest which takes her from rural Suffolk into the court itself … The picaresque form gets appropriately picaresque treatment, by turns heightened, vulgar, poetic and often crudely exaggerated … Prudes will loathe it, as will the squeamish.

At the risk of being labelled a contemporary prude or dismissed as a stuffy upholder of middle-class taste, I feel that no one should be asked to sit through repeated demonstrations of the art of garrotting.