Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: prudish
IPA transcription: [pɹ'udɪʃ]
adverb meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, prudish, puritanical, square-toed, straitlaced, strait-laced, straightlaced, straight-laced, tight-laced, victorian
    Meaning: exaggeratedly proper; "my straitlaced Aunt Anna doesn't approve of my miniskirts"
Usage examples
  • But then she had been very guarded; not stiff or prudish, indeed, but frank and cold enough with him, and that was comforting.
  • I am neither whimsical nor prudish, and should be sorry to get that reputation; but I feel sure that I can trust to your honor when I ask you to keep up the outward appearance of wedded life."
  • Never was there a society less ungenerously prudish, and yet there were cases--this, one of them--which transgressed all conventional rule. Like a crime which no statute had ever contemplated, it stood out self-accused and self-condemned.
  • A young, strictly reared and prudish girl will, by reason of those factors, disfigure with an inexorable censorship those dream impulses which we physicians, for example, and which the dreamer herself ten years later, would recognize as permissible, harmless, libidinous desires.