prudery

Example Sentences

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Told that some patients were refusing further appointments with him, Tyndall dismissed the reports as “innuendo” based on “nearly unimaginable prudery” by colleagues.

From Los Angeles Times

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

From Los Angeles Times

Instead, they have fallen back on the very practice that enabled abusive priests to thrive: dealing with sexual conflict through a blend of prudery, euphemism, and evasion.

From The New Yorker

Carlson knows that what modern conservatives want is sexism free of the prudery and piety of the religious right.

From Salon

And Twitter provides a smorgasbord of spluttering about the terrors of our new prudery.

From The Guardian