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
Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2019
It was a falsehood even prudery itself might deem pardonable.
From The Child Wife by Mayne Reid
It is always consoling to remember this in an age of petty pruderies.
From Studies in the Psychology of Sex, Volume 6 Sex in Relation to Society by Havelock Ellis
The narrow theological spirit, the moralism à tout propos, the queer provincialities and pruderies, are mere wild weeds in a mountain of flowers.
From Italian Hours by Henry James
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
There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies.
From Without Prejudice by Israel Zangwill
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