prudery

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed.

From New York Times • Nov. 11, 2021

My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019

This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016

That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 2012

With a vast parade of prudery she insisted at first upon apartments being provided as remote as might be from my lord's.

From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis