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
My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2019
But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too.
From Salon ● Apr. 13, 2014
Some things were just plain unacceptable even when buttoned-up 1950s prudery was beginning its retreat.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 6, 2012
Even prudery could not show excuse for keeping aloof.
From The White Gauntlet by Mayne Reid
The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.
From Europe After 8:15 by Thomas H. Benton
Without, as I perceived, hereditary breeding, and without conventional pruderies, she had a rare purity and elevation of feeling, which exerted a manifest and constant influence, sadly needed in a soldiers' hospital.
From The Continental Monthly, Vol. III, No. V, May, 1863 Devoted to Literature and National Policy by Various
I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
"Startled the pruderies, you mean," he answered, bridling.
From The Heavenly Twins by Madame Sarah Grand
Prejudices and pruderies, respect of persons, reverence of sentiments, and consideration for the corns of the dull are fatal.
From Pot-Boilers by Clive Bell
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