In my great work on The Prude all will be attended to with due discrimination in apportionment of censure.
A prudeis one who blushes modestly at the indelicacy of her thoughts and virtuously flies from the temptation of her desires.
If by prude be meant a secretly vicious person who affects an excessive decorum, by all means let the prude disappear, even at the cost of some shamelessness.
Tis a Double Entendre, at which the Coquet laughs, the Prude looks grave, the Modest blush, but all are pleas'd with.
In this Glass a Coquet may see her Vanity, and a Prude her Hypocrisy.
The flacon of some defunct prude is placed side by side with the vinaigrette of some jolie danseuse who was any thing but prudish.
I should like to have seen your prude with her two cardinals and her three or four marquises, who are bursting with fear at this moment in a corner of the arsenal, while we remain masters of the field of battle.
Richelieu, "you are laughing; I suppose I have had the misfortune to offend that ridiculous prude called orthography.
It seems to me, the more that I gaze at it, that a prude iz nothing more than a coquett gone to seed.
Mi private opinyun ov a prude iz, that their gratest anxiety iz tew have their propriety tempted.
Coquets, and prudes, ought tew be compelled to hunt in couples, so that when the coquet haz wounded the game, the prude kan nuss the dieing viktim.
A prude skorns tew make a conquest, not upon principle, but bekause she kant, she hates a man with her love.
I don't kno but a Prude may possibly fall in love, but if they ever do, they don't kno it.
Yes, a tale of scandal is as fatal to the credit of a prude as a fever to those of the strongest constitutions; but there is a sort of sickly reputation that outlives hundreds of the robuster character of a prude.
O Lud, ma'am, I'll undertake to ruin the character of the primmest prude in London with half as much.
Samuel Peters, writing in his General History of Connecticut in 1781, declared of their accomplishments: "The women of Connecticut are strictly virtuous and to be compared to the prude rather than the European polite lady.
I must seem a little prude to you I'm afraid, but really, God is not what you think.
Or was she such a prude that she thought him presuming on so slight an acquaintance?
The girl would probably be a prude and bore, but there was a chance that she might be a princess in disguise and need a prince to show her a good time.
What can there be in that little prude of a woman that makes men so raffoler about her?
I assure you, notwithstanding my gaiety, I am as virtuous as any prude in Europe.
Even in Selina's day a prudewas a prude and no girl wanted to be one.
As long as you live, little girl, some prudewill be mincing forward [165] from time to time to see if the nails are holding the cross itself still in the full glare.
The shrew had to fight the prude for her position, her plunder, and her royal paramour.
But as the Duke of Richmond had a wife he could not be considered an eligible parti, and consequently the cunning prude treated her ducal admirer with her customary indifference.
Such a flirtation could not pass unobserved, and people who knew the cold nature of the dazzling prude laughed or shook their heads and wondered, perhaps, how long George Hamilton's would be safe on his shoulders.
That the consummate prude was quite alive to the value of reporting to the King the unsuccessful attempts on her chastity, as well as the political designs on her influence, may be taken for granted.
Two infatuated younger sons would have been only too willing to take her at her word, and dare the King's rage, if the beautiful prude could have made up her mind to abandon her grand desires, which she never could.
One "foul night" the beautiful prude stole from her room at Whitehall and joined the Duke of Richmond, who, the day after that surprise visit of the King's had fled the Court without waiting to be banished.
Hamilton added that this triumph was believed to have cost the prudeher virtue.
Your prude clutches Irving to the small of his back and cries, 'This alone is beauty!
Lisbeth, looking at the Baron with the dignity of a prude on her guard a quarter of an hour too soon.
To be a good woman and a prude to all the world, and a courtesan to her husband, is the gift of a woman of genius, and they are few.
It will not be like my affair with this prude of a Madame d'Harville--fine game!
I can tell you, my dear guest, that Nicole Legay is not a prude like her mistress and compliments do not frighten her.
I do not imitate those fathers who bid a daughter play the prude and be inflexible and obtuse; go mad about honor, delicacy and disinterestedness.
What can there be in that little prude of a woman, that makes men so raffoler about her?
The distant behaviour of the prude tends to the same purpose as the advances of the coquette; and you have as little reason to fall into despair from the severity of the one, as to conceive hope from the familiarity of the latter.
The prude and coquette (as different as they appear in their behaviour) are in reality the same kind of women: the motive of action in both is the affectation of pleasing men.
The prude appears more virtuous, the coquette more vicious, than she really is.
However, prude or no prude, this good lady was kind enough to receive my visits at all times with an appearance of real satisfaction.
I, and I thought Prudewould have fallen back in a fainting fit.
Both Mrs. Prude and myself actually fell back a pace or two, as we fixed our eyes on him in speechless astonishment at his manner of asking this question.
However, Prude soon overruled my objections and sent for a hackney-coach to convey us to the theatre.
For it was indeed that most respectable saloon, in which Prude and I were making an exhibition of our pretty persons, owing to the merest ignorance.
A prude is a woman who sticks up for ridiculous punctilios in such trifles as are of no real consequence.
In vain did poor Prude practise her infallible awe-inspiring frowns!
And apparently the girl was far from being a prude or a snob.
He did this in a matter-of-fact, bourgeois way, however, which not even a prudeor a snob could think offensive.
The Prude and the Coquet should be valued at the same Price, tho' the first should go off the better of the two.
I need not add, that a Fan is either a Prude or Coquet according to the Nature of the Person [who [3]] bears it.
She was a Girl of such exuberant Mirth, that her Visit to Trophonius only reduced her to a more than ordinary Decency of Behaviour, and made a very pretty Prude of her.
Our last Months Prude was so armed and fortified in Whalebone and Buckram that we had much ado to come at her; but you would have died with laughing to have seen how the sober awkward Thing looked when she was forced out of her Intrenchments.
It was the Heart of Melissa, a noted Prudewho lives the next Door to me.
A Prude often preserves her Reputation when she has lost her Virtue.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prude" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
