prudery
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He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.
From Salon ● Mar. 18, 2022
Poem-sequences dominate Muldoon’s storm of slaps against piety, prudery, cruelty and greed.
From New York Times ● Nov. 11, 2021
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
My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.
From Los Angeles Times ● May 20, 2019
I would rather be a coquett than a prude; thare iz some 356 fun in it—thare is viktory in it; while prudery, at best, iz only a defeat in an inglorious cauze.
From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.
The Bavarians have no false pruderies, no nasty little nicenesses.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
Her remark in reference to the servants showed him how far she was from any conventional pruderies.
From Shadows of Flames A Novel by Rives, Amélie
They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Addams, Jane
Not, of course, that I have no pruderies, no fastidious metes and bounds.
From Europe After 8:15 by Benton, Thomas H.
She stands, the representative of the ethical level of the age, not of fixed pruderies.
From Without Prejudice by Zangwill, Israel
