prude

How To Use prude In A Sentence

• A single incident suggests a great deal about Hennepinhis prudery, his belligerence, his sensitivity.
• The mighty Dragon sneers at the prudent and penny-pinching.
• Received entomological wisdom holds that a ‘prudent’ parasite does not kill its host.
• But if they are needy as a consequence of their criminal, irrational, or imprudent behavior, then it is not a fine thing.
• more prudent to hide than to fight
• Society may be full of poisonous vapors and be built on a framework of lies; it is nevertheless prudent to consider whether the ideal advantages of disturbing it overweigh the practical disadvantages, and above all to bear in mind that if you rob the average man of his illusions, you are almost sure to rob him of his happiness. Henrik Ibsen
• I read once that a prude is a good woman in the worst sense of the word. How good is good?
• At the moment when she makes her entrance into this history which we are relating, she was an antique virtue, an incombustible prude, with one of the sharpest noses, and one of the most obtuse minds that it is possible to see. Les Miserables
• I started him in the mortgage loan business when we got the Prudential Insurance Company account in 1919 and he was my subman down in Florence. Oral History Interview with Alester G. Furman Jr., January 6, 1976. Interview B-0019. Southern Oral History Program Collection (#4007)
• Well, it would be in a whole new jurisprudence so far as the prosecution of Commonwealth offences were concerned in this country.