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
Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2019
My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2019
By instinct Miss Simpson was modest to the verge of prudery.
From Coelebs The Love Story of a Bachelor by F.E. Mills Young
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
They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
