Crossword clues for prudishly
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Prudishly \Prud"ish*ly\, adv. In a prudish manner.
Wiktionary
adv. In a prudish manner.
WordNet
adv. in a prudish manner; "she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste" [syn: puritanically]
Usage examples of "prudishly".
They kissed, he a little prudishly, while Shirley thought about what present to take back to her best friend Jean who also worked in the typing pool but who secretly wanted to be a ventriloquist.
He strode quickly across his bedroom, reveling in the lack of those arthritic pains which his previous body had begun to develop, and depressed the button, looking up at the screen, but prudishly keeping his own nudity out of range of the video-camera.
He strode quickly across his bedroom, reveling in the lack of those arthritic pains which his previous body had begun to develop, and depressed the button, looking up at the screen, but prudishly keeping his own nudity out of range of the video camera.
A chiffon blouse was prudishly buttoned just shy of the neck, revealing a strand of pearls.
What Urky liked was scandalous University gossip, offered on my part as if unwillingly and prudishly, as we sipped the marijuana tea and nibbled the marijuana cookies (I tried once or twice to get Urky to advance towards something a little more adventurous -- a little acid on a sugar cube, or the teeniest jab with the monkey-pump -- but he is what we call a chipper, flirting with drugs but scared to go very far.
Arkady remembered that he had worn a towel tied prudishly around his waist.