Word "PRUDE" Definitions:


Part of Speech:
Noun
Definition:
a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum
Synonyms:
puritan

Crossword Clues for PRUDE

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Quietly insulting Mrs Grundy
Puritan could be quietly offensive The Telegraph Cryptic 03 Jul 2025
Extremely proper person
Overly righteous
Stuffy sort Eugene Sheffer 31 Mar 2025
Puritanical person Universal 25 Feb 2025
Puritan is quietly disrespectful (5)
One with affected modesty
Strait-laced sort Wall Street Journal 09 Dec 2024
Person easiy shocked (5)
"We are not amused" type LA Times Daily 07 Nov 2024
Priggish person The Sun Mini 02 Nov 2024
One who's unlikely to enjoy sex comedies
Puritanical type Premier Sunday 20 Oct 2024
Extremely modest person (5)
One who is prim (5)
Overly moral person Puzzler Backwords 01 Oct 2024
Prissy one Thomas Joseph 18 Sep 2024
Stuffy type at the outset presuming raunchiness usually damages ethics (5) The Guardian Quick 15 Sep 2024
Stuffy type at the outset presuming raunchiness usually damages ethics (5) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 15 Sep 2024
Stuffy type at the outset presuming raunchiness usually damages ethics (5) The Guardian Quick Cryptic 14 Sep 2024
Stuffy type at the outset presuming raunchiness usually damages ethics (5) The Guardian Quick 14 Sep 2024
Stuffy sort Eugene Sheffer 26 Aug 2024
Goody-goody quiet, then insolent (5) Puzzler Cryptic 12 Aug 2024
One of affected modesty
First person to be impolite to one morally righteous (5)
One affecting extreme modesty
Puritan (5) Puzzler 10 Jul 2024
Puritan, but saucy on the quiet
Person easily shocked (5)
DUPER
Goody two-shoes can be quietly coarse (5)
Gets up looking red like some person of affected modesty (5)
Puritan indiscreet to remove two layers of clothing
Strait-laced sort Wall Street Journal 20 Apr 2024
Person who's overly concerned with propriety
One affectedly moral (5)
A priggish person can be quietly uncivil (5)
Soft, ill-mannered one showing priggish modesty (5)
Very modest person
Person unlikely to hang out at a nude beach
Goody-goody quiet, then insolent (5) Puzzler Cryptic 13 Dec 2023
Excessively proper person
Easily shockable sort New York Times 29 Oct 2023
Narrow-minded moraliser The Times Concise 19 Sep 2023
Stuffy sort Eugene Sheffer 07 Sep 2023
Overly proper person Newsday 01 Sep 2023
Puritanical person Canadiana 27 Feb 2023
Fuddy-duddy New York Times 06 Jul 2022
Hardly a libertine LA Times Daily 11 Feb 2022
Hardly a libertine The Washington Post 11 Feb 2022
Straight-laced type Wall Street Journal 16 Jun 2021
. I'm overtly modest but quietly vulgar
Stuffy sort Eugene Sheffer 08 Apr 2020
One that is proper, at first painful and insensitive
Puritanical person Thomas Joseph 22 Jun 2019
Old-fashioned one Universal 10 Nov 2018
One who's not exactly fast The New Yorker 22 Oct 2018
Moralistic sort Wall Street Journal 30 May 2018
Victorian in manner Universal 10 May 2018
Victorian in manner
Moralistic sort
Old-fashioned one
Puritanical sort USA Today 25 Aug 2017
Puritanical sort
Goody two shoes LA Times Daily 23 Dec 2016
Early signs of po-faced reactions usually display existence – of one?
Easily shocked person The Times Concise 16 Nov 2016
Overly proper one Newsday 17 Apr 2016
Overly proper person Family Time 03 Apr 2016
Goody-goody Universal 23 Mar 2016
Penny is not civil to killjoy Irish Times Crosaire 25 Jan 2016
Goody two shoes
One overly upright Newsday 26 Dec 2015
Prig The Telegraph Quick 11 Nov 2015
'Oooh, you said a swear!' type Jonesin 07 Jul 2015
Very proper sort LA Times Daily 04 Jan 2015
Very proper sort
One overly upright
Victorian, maybe
Goody two-shoes
Goody-goody
Overly proper person
Nice Nelly
One overly concerned with propriety
Hardly a libertine
Excessively proper type
Libertine's opposite
Annoyingly proper one
Excessively proper type
Stuffy sort
Goody two shoes
One overly concerned with decorum
Easily shocked sort
Bluenose
Bluenose
Goody-goody
Fuddy-duddy
Victorian type
Bluenose
Fuddy-duddy
Fuddy-duddy
Puritanical person
Victorian type
Hardly a libertine
Sensitive lover?
Decent sort?
Uptight person
Goody-goody
Bluenose
Easily offended sort
Fuddy-duddy
Excessively proper one
Priggish one
Straitlaced sort
Priggish one
Hardly libertine
Goody-two-shoes
Goody-goody
Straight-laced finger-wagger
Overly proper one
Overly proper one
Stuffy sort
Victorian, stereotypically
Inhibited one
Easily offended sort
Priggish sort
Victorian, maybe
Overly proper person
Bluenose
Goody-goody
Bluenose
Bluenose
Priggish sort
Victorian type
Bluenose
Priggish person
Hardly a libertine
Straitlaced one
Nice Nellie
One overly modest
Propriety mossback
Very proper one
Nice Nelly
Fastidious person
Puritanical one
Stuffy one
Nice nelly
Fussy woman.
Stickler for propriety.
Overly proper person.
Inhibited person.
Overly modest one
Prissy person.
Excessively modest person.
Mid-Victorian.
Cousin of a bluenose.
Bluenose.
Prig.
Overly modest one.
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