PRUDISH vs STRAITLACED: 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
- Alternative spelling of strait-laced.
- Exaggeratedly proper
PRUDISH vs STRAITLACED: 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.
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PRUDISH vs STRAITLACED: RELATED WORDS
- Licentious, Snobbish, Puritan, Uptight, Censorious, Square toed, Tight laced, Proper, Victorian, Straightlaced, Prim, Straitlaced, Prissy, Priggish, Puritanical
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PRUDISH vs STRAITLACED: DESCRIBE WORDS
- Licentious, Snobbish, Puritan, Uptight, Censorious, Tight laced, Square toed, Proper, Victorian, Straightlaced, Prim, Straitlaced, Prissy, Priggish, Puritanical
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PRUDISH vs STRAITLACED: 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?
- Jim Dial, the very straitlaced anchor, opens a bar, and it turns out to be a gay bar.
- Don Corleone, notoriously straitlaced in such matters, though his stout wife was screaming joyfully with the others, disappeared tactfully into the house.
- But survival, in her straitlaced milieu, also means ossification, it means surrender to convention and a convenient degree of unfeeling.
- In most regards, San Diego is pretty straitlaced about crime and punishment, but it does occasionally fall for a bank robber.
- Straitlaced as to you hear me this would be excited by the financial transactions.
- The first one is a little more straitlaced and straightforward.
PRUDISH vs STRAITLACED: 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?
- Why did the pastor want to marry a straitlaced man?