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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Person who's overly concerned with propriety
A priggish person can be quietly uncivil (5)
One affectedly moral (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 The Washington Post 11 Feb 2022
Hardly a libertine LA Times Daily 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
One overly upright
Very proper sort
Victorian, maybe
Goody two-shoes
Goody-goody
Overly proper person
One overly concerned with propriety
Nice Nelly
Goody two shoes
Excessively proper type
Stuffy sort
Libertine's opposite
Annoyingly proper one
Excessively proper type
Hardly a libertine
Goody-goody
One overly concerned with decorum
Bluenose
Easily shocked sort
Bluenose
Fuddy-duddy
Puritanical person
Fuddy-duddy
Bluenose
Victorian type
Fuddy-duddy
Victorian type
Sensitive lover?
Hardly a libertine
Decent sort?
Bluenose
Uptight person
Goody-goody
Easily offended sort
Fuddy-duddy
Priggish one
Priggish one
Excessively proper one
Hardly libertine
Straitlaced sort
Overly proper one
Overly proper one
Straight-laced finger-wagger
Goody-goody
Goody-two-shoes
Stuffy sort
Victorian, stereotypically
Inhibited one
Easily offended sort
Priggish sort
Victorian, maybe
Goody-goody
Overly proper person
Bluenose
Bluenose
Priggish sort
Victorian type
Bluenose
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
Prig.
Bluenose.
Cousin of a bluenose.
Mid-Victorian.
Excessively modest person.
Fussy woman.
Stickler for propriety.
Overly proper person.
Prissy person.
Inhibited person.
Overly modest one.
Overly modest one
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