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
This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2016
But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2014
In the Bible the beauty of women is frankly spoken of without prudery or mawkishness as an influence in human affairs.
From The Expositor's Bible: The Book of Genesis by Marcus Dods
Like a true Frenchwoman as she was she had obeyed the frank dictates of her reason—the generous impulses of her nature—despising the conventional pruderies of the world.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
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
There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
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
I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
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