PRUDISH vs PRIGGISH: ADJECTIVE
- Of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters
- Like a prude; very formal, precise, or reserved; affectedly severe in virtue
- Marked by or exhibiting the characteristics of a prude; priggish.
- Exaggeratedly proper
- Like a prig.
- Like a prig; conceited; pragmatical.
- Exaggeratedly proper
PRUDISH vs PRIGGISH: OTHER WORD TYPES
- Excessively formal or precise; rigid; stiff; severe.
- Having the character or manner of a prude; affecting extreme propriety of behavior; also, characteristic of a prude; prim.
- Conceited; coxcombical; affected.
- Dishonest; thievish.
PRUDISH vs PRIGGISH: RELATED WORDS
- Licentious, Snobbish, Puritan, Uptight, Censorious, Square toed, Tight laced, Proper, Victorian, Straightlaced, Prim, Straitlaced, Prissy, Priggish, Puritanical
- N/A
PRUDISH vs PRIGGISH: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Licentious, Snobbish, Puritan, Uptight, Censorious, Tight laced, Square toed, Proper, Victorian, Straightlaced, Prim, Straitlaced, Prissy, Priggish, Puritanical
- N/A
PRUDISH vs PRIGGISH: SENTENCE EXAMPLES
- I felt prudish for a living, some are better than to even try and appeal the FDA sometime in 2005.
- Certainly not for the prudish, but then again, I suspect there aren't too many regulars here who are prudes.
- Exposure to such openness liberates Edna from her previously prudish behavior and repressed emotions and desires.
- Come on, Beneath that Icy exterior is a freak, How prudish is she?
- Heinrich, however, was not as prudish as a later medieval editor.
- It is prudish to treat infections caused by enema and eroded micro-organisms abstracted minocin.
- Recently Tumblr announced it would implement a hypocritical, prudish ban on adult content.
- It is naughty and might be frowned upon by prudish viewers.
- Purple One but finds him too lucid and prudish.
- Who would have thought the Sex Party was prudish?
- They are too frivolous to be edifying, and too serious to be diverting; and they are, moreover, priggish and paradoxical and superfluous.
- Ida is sweet tempered and ready for a new life; Lucille is feisty and Doris is priggish and judgmental.
- An idealistic and at times priggish young man, Howell complained about officers and enlisted men who swore, drank, and ignored the Sabbath.
- The most difficult part in this story is usually that of Molly, who can easily seem priggish and overly Victorian to current audiences.
- The adulthood of employees priggish want to hale in, run successfully, and be a triumph in their careers.
- Blackmoor manor, an oddly precocious stepdaughter, and a priggish spinster aunt who tends carnivorous plants, among others.
- The outsider is at once admirable and priggish.
PRUDISH vs PRIGGISH: QUESTIONS
- Who are the most prudish characters in the British royal family?
- Is this shrine of fertility in Tokyo for the prudish?
- What was a prudish old fashioned Frump turned into?
- Why are American sites more prudish than other countries?
- What is it called when a man is priggish at its worst?