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

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

“I cannot affect,” she says, “a prudery which is not natural to me.”

From French Classics by Wilkinson, William Cleaver