PRUDE in a Sentence
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Example sentences for PRUDE, such as:
1. A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed.
2. Let us be neither prudes nor prudent men nor prudhommes.
3. This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
2. Let us be neither prudes nor prudent men nor prudhommes.
3. This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
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Meanings and Examples of PRUDE
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prude
n. excessively modest person; person excessively concerned about correct behavior
Classic Sentence:
1 This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
2 One may be old, one may be a prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable to see a lancer enter one's chamber.
3 The bourgeois is avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
Context Highlight In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
4 Let us be neither prudes nor prudent men nor prudhommes.
Example Sentence:
1 A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed.