prudery
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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
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
That prudery and squeamishness lasted well into the 1940s and 1950s.
From Salon ● Aug. 14, 2012
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 Xavier Hommaire de Hell
They catch the idea readily and practice their teachers' precisions and pruderies upon the family.
From Atlantic Classics, Second Series by Jane Addams
The crack of that great spark emptied the jar; the American people forgot all about their pledges and pruderies during the four years of Civil War.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
She has stopped my mouth overlong with her pruderies and her scruples.
From The Fair Maid of Perth Or, St. Valentine's Day by Sir Walter Scott
Like a true Frenchwoman as she was she had obeyed the frank dictates of her reason—the generous impulses of her nature—despising the conventional pruderies of the world.
From The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 3 by Edgar Allan Poe
I’d never elbow him off to crusades with my pruderies.
From The Saint's Tragedy by Charles Kingsley
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