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 and divides as pru-dish-ly under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

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.