| prude | (noun) a person excessively concerned about propriety and decorum | Synonyms: puritan |
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| prudence | (noun) discretion in practical affairs | - |
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| (noun) knowing how to avoid embarrassment or distress | Synonyms: circumspection, discreetness, discretion |
| prudent | (adjective) careful and sensible; marked by sound judgment | - |
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| prudential | (adjective) arising from or characterized by prudence especially in business matters | - |
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| prudently | (adverb) in a prudent manner | Synonyms: providentially |
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| prudery | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudishness |
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| prudish | (adjective) exaggeratedly proper | Synonyms: priggish, prim, prissy, puritanical, square-toed, straight-laced, straightlaced, strait-laced, straitlaced, tight-laced, victorian |
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| prudishly | (adverb) in a prudish manner | Synonyms: puritanically |
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| prudishness | (noun) excessive or affected modesty | Synonyms: Grundyism, primness, prudery |
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| prune | (noun) dried plum | - |
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| (verb) weed out unwanted or unnecessary things | Synonyms: cut, rationalise, rationalize |
| (verb) cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of | Synonyms: clip, crop, cut back, dress, lop, snip, trim |
| pruner | (noun) a long-handled pruning saw with a curved blade at the end and sometimes a clipper; used to prune small trees | Synonyms: lopper, pruning hook |
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| (noun) a worker who thins out and trims trees and shrubs | Synonyms: trimmer |
| pruning | (noun) the act of trimming a plant | - |
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| (noun) something that has been pruned off of a plant | - |
| pruno | (noun) a liquor concocted from a mixture of ingredients (such as prunes and raisins and milk and sugar) that can be fermented to produce alcohol; made by prison inmates | - |
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| prurience | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, pruriency |
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| pruriency | (noun) feeling morbid sexual desire or a propensity to lewdness | Synonyms: carnality, lasciviousness, lubricity, prurience |
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| prurient | (adjective) characterized by lust | Synonyms: lubricious, lustful, salacious |
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| pruriently | (adverb) in a prurient manner | - |
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| prurigo | (noun) chronic inflammatory disease of the skin characterized by blister capped papules and intense itching | - |
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| pruritus | (noun) an intense itching sensation that can have various causes (as by allergies or infection or lymphoma or jaundice etc.) | - |
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