prudery
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He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
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
Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2014
Marrying tew suit other folks iz the prudery ov politeness; i should az soon think ov begging pardon ov a thorn, for running aginst it.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Forget wholly and for ever all small pruderies, and remember that you cannot change ancestral feelings of right and wrong without what is practically soul-murder.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 25 (of 25) by Andrew Lang
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
The narrow theological spirit, the moralism à tout propos, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
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
