prudery

Example Sentences

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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

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

Some things were just plain unacceptable even when buttoned-up 1950s prudery was beginning its retreat.

From The Guardian • Oct. 6, 2012

It was, notably, a period of prudery, of all which, objectively, I disliked; while at the same time there had been the undercurrent of license that always accompanied an oppressive hypocrisy.

From San Crist?bal de la Habana by Hergesheimer, Joseph