prudery

Example Sentences

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He was fired because of indefensible and harmful prudery.

From Salon • Mar. 18, 2022

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

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

"Was it because the English prudery has disappeared in a corner?"

From Whirlpools A Novel of Modern Poland by Sienkiewicz, Henryk