Crossword-Solution: PRUDES
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| Word | Anagrams | |
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| PRUDES | anagram | DRUPES, DUPERS, PURSED |
We have 26 clues for the answer “PRUDES”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Moralistic types | 1 answer |
| Very proper sorts | 1 answer |
| Very proper persons. | 1 answer |
| Unlikely swingers | 1 answer |
| Unlikely attenders of R-rated films | 1 answer |
| Tut-tutters | 1 answer |
| They're no fun | 1 answer |
| Priggish persons. | 1 answer |
| Overly proper types | 1 answer |
| Overly proper persons | 1 answer |
| Overly proper people | 1 answer |
| Mrs. Grundys. | 1 answer |
| Mrs. Grundy and others | 1 answer |
| Moralistic bunch | 1 answer |
| Libertarians they aren't | 1 answer |
| Hardly libertines | 1 answer |
| Extreme Victorians. | 1 answer |
| Easily offended types | 1 answer |
| Crabapple Annies | 1 answer |
| Victorians | 2 answers |
| Goody-goodies | 2 answers |
| Nice Nellies | 3 answers |
| Bluenoses | 3 answers |
| Prigs | 4 answers |
| AN EXPERIENCE THAT IS IRRITATING OR FRUSTRATING OR DISAPPOINTING | 10 answers |
| be offended | 10 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AERET
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with PRUDES (5)
Indeed I should not be astonished, was he to come immediately here, and reproach you for your instability in the hearing of the whole school: and what will be the consequence? you will bear the odium of having formed the resolution of eloping, and every girl of spirit will laugh at your want of fortitude to put it in execution, while prudes and fools will load you with reproach and contempt.
Let prudes and fools censure if they dare, and blame a sensibility they never felt; I will exultingly tell them that the heart that is truly virtuous is ever inclined to pity and forgive the errors of its fellow-creatures.” A beam of exulting joy played round the animated countenance of Mrs.
Where not one careless thought intrudes Less modest than the speech of prudes; Where never blush was called in aid, The spurious virtue in a maid, A virtue but at second-hand; They blush because they understand.
And one said smiling 'Pretty were the sight If our old halls could change their sex, and flaunt With prudes for proctors, dowagers for deans, And sweet girl-graduates in their golden hair.
This lean young man, with a bilious skin, tall enough to justify his sonorous nullity (for it is rare that a tall man does not have eminent faculties of some kind) outdid the puritanism of the votaries of the extreme Left, all of them so sensitive, after the manner of prudes who have their intrigues to hide.
Quotes with PRUDES (3)
There must be room in our world for eccentricity, even if it offends the prudes, and room for the vague other-worldliness that often goes with genius.
On the inside, the copycats of the ruffians are more delicate than the copycats of prudes.
Do an overwhelming number of respected scientists believe that human actions are changing the Earth's climate? Yes. OK, that being the case, let's undermine that by finding and funding those few contrarians who believe otherwise. Promote their message widely and it will accumulate in the mental environment, just as toxic mercury accumulates in a biological ecosystem. Once enough of the toxin has been dispersed, the balance of public understanding will shift. Fund a low level …
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Appears in: Boston Globe, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, WP, WSJ.
Used 30 times in crossword archives (1959–2022).