prudery

Example Sentences

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But when you strip away the social conventions from which a show’s crisis develops — prudery, repression, outerwear, what have you — you leave the action unmotivated and unmoored.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2022

My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019

Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing?

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2014

Paul IV., in an unfortunate fit of prudery, was seized with the resolution of whitewashing over the whole of the Last Judgment, in order to cover the scandal of a few naked female figures.

From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.