prudish

How To Use prudish In A Sentence

• Number one in the list is the Cornish hamlet of Cocks, which has resisted attempts by a prudish local authority to respell it Cox.
• The exuberant decadence of such pictures aroused, in the most famously prudish of English art historians, something akin to a sexual terror, so that even when looking at Bronzino's religious altarpieces he saw nothing but bodies orgiastically intertwined in a carnal hell. Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph
• Another thing that worries me is how prudish people are about nudity, and sex.
• The Victorian age was supposed to have been temperate, prudish, serious and industrious, rather like the good Queen herself.
• He was religious and prudish, which is one of the main reasons why the novels of his era do not feature any sex. The problem of length -- part 1
• American culture is in many ways still fairly prudish.
• These strict and prudish ideals were those of the austere Hejaz merchants.
• The virginal Mina (Cindy Marie Small) is no shrinking violent and is understandably exasperated by the Victorian prudishness of fiancé Jonathan Harker.
• Well, the Elizabethans wore voluminous clothing, and an item or two less should not offend even the most prudish, we suppose.
• And how scarifyingly he would laugh at me, if he knew what comic relics of old prudish reflexes are stirred up by the contact with his mere human livingness. The Brimming Cup