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

Thanks to local prudery and Robert Moses, it was never realized.

From The Guardian • Oct. 20, 2019

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

From Los Angeles Times • May 20, 2019

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

From Salon • Apr. 13, 2014

But all this prudery extends no further than outward forms, and it would be a grand mistake to suppose that there is more morality in Russia than elsewhere.

From Travels in the Steppes of the Caspian Sea, the Crimea, the Caucasus, &c. by Hell, Xavier Hommaire de