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plural prudes
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature. quotations examples
He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
1907, E.M. Forster, The Longest Journey, Part I, IV [Uniform ed., p. 62]
If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.
1991, Robert M. Pirsig, Lila
comparative more prude, superlative most prude
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