prudery

Example Sentences

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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

Offering up a sharp defense of art for art’s sake in his Gothic novel’s withering repudiation of Victorian prudery, he declared, “Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

From Los Angeles Times

The authors wage guerrilla war on prudery; they view sex as yodelingly absurd yet rather fun and, in this fantasia at least, consequence-free.

From New York Times

Pleasure and its unfettered indulgence drove the latter, who refused to put up with the prudery of polite society.

From Los Angeles Times