prudery
Example Sentences
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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
Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized.
From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019
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
That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s.
From Salon • Aug. 14, 2012
By instinct Miss Simpson was modest to the verge of prudery.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by Young, F.E. Mills
