prudishly
- r in a prudish manner
she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste
- Eastern Europe, once prudishly communist, is pockmarked with streetwalkers and whorehouses.
- The answers sometimes prudishly shade the truth; asked about contraceptives, one teacher replies: "I say they are sold to married people, and I stress their unreliability.
- When you've grown up in a culture where men and women relate prudishly, not even a Coolmax barrier of high-tech Lycra is going to put you at ease panting alongside men in a coed .