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

My objection isn’t rooted in prudery but in artistic tact.

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019

This is a piece of prudery more worthy of Victorian England than Edouard Manet’s France.

From The Guardian • Jan. 18, 2016

That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s.

From Salon • Aug. 14, 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