Priggish people

Usage examples of prudes.

Wherever he came from, they must be such prudes, to be so fussy about a man's nakedness and take offense at mere words.

Americans in the eighties and nineties had prided themselves on their openness about sex, but to Ivan those open-minded Americans seemed like prudes compared to the ribald—or downright lewd—comments, gestures, and charades that surrounded him and Katerina as they led a huge troop of villagers to the king's house.

Sally Jersey gave her the vouchers, we all danced with her, and still some of the pinch-faced prudes cut her.