prudery
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They do so as well, and their prudery is the one fault of this otherwise admirable edition.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 13, 2026
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
This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2016
Her purity of conduct was combined with no uncouth prudery.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
Marriage had surely subtly changed her, giving back to her desires, prejudices, even pruderies of feeling that she had thought she had got rid of for ever long ago.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
The crack of that great spark emptied the jar; the American people forgot all about their pledges and pruderies during the four years of Civil War.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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