Crossword-Solution: PRUDISH
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Prudish | a. | Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue; as, a prudish woman; prudish manners. |
We have 41 clues for the answer “PRUDISH”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Too proper | 1 answer |
| Easily shocked | 1 answer |
| Easily embarrassed, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Not into spicy things | 1 answer |
| Exaggeratedly proper | 2 answers |
| Victorian, say | 2 answers |
| Beyond proper | 2 answers |
| Not likely to let loose | 2 answers |
| Easily offended | 5 answers |
| prissy | 6 answers |
| Victorian | 13 answers |
| Ill-mannered | 16 answers |
| Muley | 18 answers |
| priggish | 23 answers |
| prim | 25 answers |
| Genteel | 42 answers |
| sus | 50 answers |
| undemonstrative | 51 answers |
| cloistered | 51 answers |
| Retiring | 51 answers |
| distrusting | 53 answers |
| Reclusive | 53 answers |
| retreated | 54 answers |
| Sheep-ish? | 54 answers |
| coy | 60 answers |
| Bashful | 61 answers |
| unobtrusive | 62 answers |
| meek | 62 answers |
| incommunicable | 62 answers |
| Timid | 62 answers |
| Peaceable | 62 answers |
| Reluctant | 63 answers |
| Demure | 64 answers |
| Abashed | 66 answers |
| mulish | 69 answers |
| Peaceful | 72 answers |
| Persistent | 75 answers |
| Unassuming | 78 answers |
| Obstinate | 82 answers |
| Embarrassed | 82 answers |
| Correct | 108 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PRUDISH (5)
Her fine temper, he said to himself, was a trifle cold and conscious, her purity prudish, perhaps, her culture pedantic.
Lake's biography of Wyatt Earp, another noted marshal; _Hard Knocks_, by Harry Young, Chicago, 1915, not too prudish to notice dance hall girls but too Victorian to say much.
The de Noailles’ château of Maintenon is an inheritance from Louis XIV.’s prudish favorite, who founded and enriched the de Noailles family.
Under the eyes of great relations, with the light of a prudish and bigoted Court turned full upon the Duchess, his honour was safe.
Why do that pair of flaunting girls, with the pert, affected laugh and the sly leer at the by-standers, intrude themselves into the same rank with yonder decorous matron, and that somewhat prudish maiden? Surely these poor creatures, born to vice as their sole and natural inheritance, can be no fit associates for women who have been guarded round about by all the proprieties of domestic life, and who could not err unless they first created the opportunity.
Quotes with PRUDISH (3)
Mamá had always made it clear she believed girls who got raped deserved it. I hadn't done any of the things she said “bad” girls did, though. I didn't parade myself around in sluttish clothes and make untoward advances. But Mamá had been wrong about everything else so far, so maybe she'd been wrong about that, too. Maybe it didn't matter whether you were bad or good, prudish or wanton: maybe just being female was enough, for some men. Maybe, like so much else, it was only abo…
I'm going out on a limb here and say that I believe my morality should have no bearing on the discussion of the pictures I made. ... Oscar Wilde, when attacked in a similar ad hominem way, insisted that it is senseless to speak of morality when discussing art, asserting that the hypocritical, prudish, and philistine English public, when unable to find the art in a work of art, instead looked for the main in it.
Elle, what happened to your prudish behavior?” Elle laughed. “It took a back seat when I was given a mate so hot that he could cook bacon on his abs.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 6 times in crossword archives (2009–2024).