Example Sentences

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Though that wasn’t the aspect of Allen’s identity that most confused them: “She looks so traditionally feminine that her foul mouth and bellicose nature are amusing surprises,” they wrote, prudishly.

From The Guardian • Sep. 26, 2018

We are losing the sense that it is possible to disagree violently and yet courteously, and that's what the conventions of parliamentary language are trying – however prudishly – to preserve.

From The Guardian • May 26, 2012

Yet much of the media insists that makes us stubbornly selfish at best, prudishly insane at worst.

From The Guardian • Feb. 1, 2011

This is the academic equivalent of Ed Sullivan in 1967 prudishly making the Rolling Stones change “Let’s spend the night together” to “Let’s spend some time together.”

From New York Times • Jan. 6, 2011

‘Such vulgar expressions annoy me,’ Doctor Copeland said prudishly.

From "The Heart is a Lonely Hunter" by Carson McCullers