prudery

Example Sentences

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But when you strip away the social conventions from which a show’s crisis develops — prudery, repression, outerwear, what have you — you leave the action unmotivated and unmoored.

From New York Times • Jun. 20, 2023

He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2022

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

Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

The civil wars and the Empire degraded the character of the people, and the exaggerated prudery of republican manners only served to make the rebound into vice the more irresistible.

From History of European Morals From Augustus to Charlemagne (Vol. 2 of 2) by Lecky, William Edward Hartpole