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
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
Her purity of conduct was combined with no uncouth prudery.
From Aspects and Impressions by Edmund Gosse
"Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
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
Some of the singular persons here affect vagaries and discuss pruderies or church matters, ethics and the like.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
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
