prudery
Example Sentences
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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
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
This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.
From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016
Her purity of conduct was combined with no uncouth prudery.
From Aspects and Impressions by Gosse, Edmund
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
