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
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
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
Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing?
From The Guardian ● Aug. 28, 2014
I don't think so, my Lord; you offered a bonus on prudery, and hence you met nothing but coyness.
From The Knight Of Gwynne, Vol. I (of II) by Charles James Lever
Some of the singular persons here affect vagaries and discuss pruderies or church matters, ethics and the like.
From Brook Farm Historic and Personal Memoirs by John Thomas Codman
Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
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
I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
Her remark in reference to the servants showed him how far she was from any conventional pruderies.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Amélie Rives
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