prudishness

Example Sentences

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"Milton is renowned as an enemy of press censorship," Scott-Warren said, "but here we see he was not immune to prudishness."

From Science Daily • May 15, 2024

Comstock ultimately became a public laughingstock for his prudishness, and the Supreme Court overturned the law’s restrictions on birth control in 1965.

From Scientific American • Apr. 28, 2023

To scorn dance now is to join in a centuries-old prudishness and closed-mindedness that overlooks movement’s blessings and charms.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 21, 2020

“There was always a kind of prudishness about the risqué humor, some of the language — the profanity — which I think in the post-‘Book of Mormon’ days has hopefully been displaced,” Mr. Thomas said.

From New York Times • Jan. 17, 2018

Perhaps at this age we return to the prudishness we had as children.

From "Cat's Eye" by Margaret Atwood