prudery
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Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
Populating the novel is the usual cast of characters, foremost among them the cop shop’s inimitable secretary, Agatino Catarella, who blends obsequiousness, prudery and verbal ineptitude into a patois all his own.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 7, 2021
She was dubbed by Time "the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation," and rebutted by Mailer in his book "The Prisoner of Sex," in which he mocked her as "the Battling Annie of some new prudery."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2014
I would rather be a coquett than a prude; thare iz some 356 fun in it—thare is viktory in it; while prudery, at best, iz only a defeat in an inglorious cauze.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Prejudices and pruderies, respect of persons, reverence of sentiments, and consideration for the corns of the dull are fatal.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted a manifest and constant influence, sadly needed in a soldiers' hospital.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
Her remark in reference to the servants showed him how far she was from any conventional pruderies.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
It is always consoling to remember this in an age of petty pruderies.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
