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
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
She was dubbed by Time "the Mao Tse-tung of Women's Liberation," and rebutted by Mailer in his book "The Prisoner of Sex," in which he mocked her as "the Battling Annie of some new prudery."
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 7, 2017
With a vast parade of prudery she insisted at first upon apartments being provided as remote as might be from my lord's.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Lewis Wingfield
Marriage had surely subtly changed her, giving back to her desires, prejudices, even pruderies of feeling that she had thought she had got rid of for ever long ago.
From Bella Donna A Novel by Robert Smythe Hichens
They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
"Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
There had been primnesses, pruderies, small reserves, which ended by staying her pen.
From The Bostonians, Vol. I (of II) by Henry James
I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
