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
Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 18, 2016
But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2014
I would rather be a coquett than a prude; thare iz some 356 fun in it—thare is viktory in it; while prudery, at best, iz only a defeat in an inglorious cauze.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
"Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
Prejudices and pruderies, respect of persons, reverence of sentiments, and consideration for the corns of the dull are fatal.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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
Like a true Frenchwoman as she was she had obeyed the frank dictates of her reason—the generous impulses of her nature—despising the conventional pruderies of the world.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
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
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