My prudish aunt does not approve of my clothes. From LearnThat.org.
Just because my friends or family don't understand the image or cannot find beauty in it does not mean they are too 'prudish' to be friends with. From Wordnik.com. [Apartment Therapy Main] Reference
Perhaps Singapore isn't as prudish as its reputation suggests. From Wordnik.com. [Singaporn] Reference
KURTZ: Did you say that America is too prudish about such matters?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Oct 26, 2003] Reference
(I put the perverse in quotations because I fear to be called prudish by Freudians.). From Wordnik.com. [The Foundations of Personality] Reference
The sociology of "prudish" behavior within families is too lengthy for this post. From Wordnik.com. [On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...] Reference
I know that by the rest of the world's standards we are 'prudish' when it comes to sexuality. From Wordnik.com. [Sex on TV Equals Teens in Bed] Reference
It's amazing stuff really, this kind of prudish pseudo-patriotic, semi-socialist hysteria. From Wordnik.com. [Independent.ie - Frontpage RSS Feed] Reference
January 1st, 2010 LONDON - Singer Mika claims he is 'prudish' and hated stripping to his underwear in the promotional video for his single 'We Are Golden'. From Wordnik.com. [Gaea Times (by Simple Thoughts) Breaking News and incisive views 24/7] Reference
London, Oct 2: Actress Emma Thompson has hit back at the critics for condemning her new movie Brideshead Revisited, insisting they are too 'prudish' to enjoy the saucy tale. From Wordnik.com. [dailyindia.com News Feed] Reference
"prudish" for censoring the commercial now is all set for an another series of ads. From Wordnik.com. [Hindustan Times News Feeds 'Views'] Reference
They are too prudish about sleeping with the "enemy.". From Wordnik.com. [Bill Shireman: Glenn Beck and Michael Moore Together: What the Country Needs] Reference
But one didn't have to be prudish to recognize the dark side. From Wordnik.com. [Fanfare For The Common Man] Reference
So maybe we are being a little prudish when we ` re faking it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jan 31, 2007] Reference
That's what's gotten everyone so prudish these days, isn't it?. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Dec 2, 2004] Reference
It was a prudish and whimsical notion of my good old housekeeper's. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 05, No. 30, April, 1860] Reference
People make a big deal of that -- that we are so prudish and puritanical. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Nov 17, 2009] Reference
Madame de Bergenheim comprehended that in such circumstances prudish airs would fail of their effect. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
To present-day readers, this may appear absurd, prudish, but not so to the men and women of that day. From Wordnik.com. [Reminiscences of a Pioneer] Reference
And that was Frenchie Davis, and that ` s where -- they were a little more prudish back in those days. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript May 8, 2008] Reference
We were a prudish family, particularly my father, and her frank assessments always took me by surprise. From Wordnik.com. [Euro-car at the Pool] Reference
And then you start to talk about like perhaps nudity in America is, you know, we're being prudish about it. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Feb 4, 2004] Reference
The Commonwealth was prudish in art as in manners, and the Restoration was a reign of revel and wild license. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, November 1885] Reference
But you wouldn't know that, thanks to prudish historians who've left all the juicy stuff out of modem textbooks. From Wordnik.com. [Ages of Consent: The Story of Sex] Reference
But the bulk of the humor among all the Latin races is of a sort that our more prudish standards cannot approve. From Wordnik.com. [Jokes For All Occasions Selected and Edited by One of America's Foremost Public Speakers] Reference
No one wanted to say anything or seem prudish or anything in those days, so they just let him keep licking himself. From Wordnik.com. [The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 18] Reference
A tiny bit of arid garden in front gave it a prudish air of withdrawing from the life and traffic of the thoroughfare. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, Vol. 22, November, 1878 of Popular Literature and Science] Reference
Ethel, not wishing to be thought prudish or ill-natured, first extinguished the light, and then threw off her chemise. From Wordnik.com. [The Power of Mesmerism A Highly Erotic Narrative of Voluptuous Facts and Fancies] Reference
Indeed she was considered quite prudish, and the rest of the mad crowd laughed at her for having the manners of a governess. From Wordnik.com. [The French Immortals Series — Complete] Reference
But without becoming pompous or prudish, these symbols do not mix, any more than we can say that we all came from the same parents. From Wordnik.com. [The Spiritual State: Harry Windsor and the Prisoners of Ignorance] Reference
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