prudishly

1. 1.

   in a prudish manner

   “she acts prudishly, but I wonder whether she is really all that chaste”

   Synonymspuritanically

Questions about prudishly

What does prudishly mean?

prudishly means "in a prudish manner".

How many syllables are in prudishly?

prudishly has 3 syllables: pru-dish-ly. The stress falls on "pru".

What is another word for prudishly?

Close synonyms include puritanically. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is prudishly a common word?

prudishly is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.