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

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019

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

It was a falsehood even prudery itself might deem pardonable.

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne