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

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

Are prudery and feminist orthodoxy the same thing?

From The Guardian • Aug. 28, 2014

But along with prurience and prudery, there’s outright oddness, too.

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2014

The southern crop is coquetry, and the northern one is prudery.

From The Complete Works of Josh Billings by Shaw, Henry W.