noun
definition
A person who is or tries to be excessively proper, especially one who is easily offended by matters of a sexual nature.
adjective
definition
Prudish.
Examples of prude in a Sentence
Were you afraid I was too much of a prude to acknowledge him?
Was she being a prude?
Don't go prude on me, Ben.
Maybe there was someone else – someone more sophisticated and not so much of a prude.
No wonder he thought she was a prude.
Maybe there was someone else – someone more sophisticated and not so much of a prude.
Did he think she was that much of a prude?
He once lay in hiding for two months with the duchesse du Maine at Sceaux, where were produced the comedietta of La Prude and the tragedy of Rome sauvee, and afterwards for a time lived chiefly at Luneville; here Madame du Chatelet had established herself at the court of King Stanislaus, and carried on a liaison with Saint-Lambert, an officer in the king's guard.