PRUDE in a Sentence

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Example sentences for PRUDE, such as:

1. A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed.
2. Let us be neither prudes nor prudent men nor prudhommes.
3. This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.

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 Meanings and Examples of PRUDE
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prude
 n.  excessively modest person; person excessively concerned about correct behavior
Classic Sentence:
1  This young soul which was expanding passed from a prude to a vulgar pedant.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER III—REQUIESCANT
2  One may be old, one may be a prude, one may be pious, one may be an aunt, but it is always agreeable to see a lancer enter one's chamber.
Les Misérables 3 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—SOME PETTICOAT
3  The bourgeois is avaricious, the bourgeoise is a prude; your century is unfortunate.
Les Misérables 5 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 5: CHAPTER VI—THE TWO OLD MEN DO EVERYTHING, EACH ONE AFTER ...
4  Let us be neither prudes nor prudent men nor prudhommes.
Les Misérables 1 By Victor Hugo
Context  Highlight   In BOOK 3: CHAPTER VII—THE WISDOM OF THOLOMYES
Example Sentence:
1  A woman, even a prude, is never long embarrassed.