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What does prudish mean?

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Adjective
  1. of excessive propriety; easily offended or shocked, especially by sexual matters
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Well, the Elizabethans wore voluminous clothing, and an item or two less should not offend even the most prudish, we suppose.
He points to the UK where, despite a generally prudish approach, underage pregnancies are rife.
But only the most prudish will have been shocked by the news that Huntington Working Men's Club has finally allowed women into its games room.
The Victorian age was supposed to have been temperate, prudish, serious and industrious, rather like the good Queen herself.
Mr S was very prudish and old-fashioned in thinking he could shield his children from his playboy reputation.
Our great-grandparents were rather less prudish than we might imagine.

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