prudery
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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
He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 20, 2019
My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2019
Delikasy iz the coquetry ov truth; fastidiousness iz the prudery ov falsehood.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Henry W. Shaw
The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.
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
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
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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