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prude

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5 lettersPronunciation /pɹuːd/Part of speech nounSorted depruStarts with PEnds with E0 cluesCommon crossword word
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Definitions

  1. a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum

Word origin

From French prude, from Old French prude, prode, feminine of prou, prod, prud (“good, excellent, brave”), from Latin prōde. Related to proud but unrelated to prudent.

Used in a sentence

  • He became shy. "I hadn't meant to tell you. It's not quite for a lady." For, like most men who are rather animal, he was intellectually a prude.
  • If you didn't go for Lila you're some kind of prissy old prude. If you did go for her you were some kind of dirty old man.

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