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
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
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
With a vast parade of prudery she insisted at first upon apartments being provided as remote as might be from my lord's.
From The Curse of Koshiu A Chronicle of Old Japan by Wingfield, Lewis
