prudery
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Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
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
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
Some things were just plain unacceptable even when buttoned-up 1950s prudery was beginning its retreat.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2012
Delikasy iz the coquetry ov truth; fastidiousness iz the prudery ov falsehood.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted a manifest and constant influence, sadly needed in a soldiers' hospital.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
French breakfasts of roll and chocolate were as little understood here as French pruderies and proprieties.
From A Blot on the Scutcheon by Mabel Winifred Knowles
