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
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
Such touches of over-sensitive prudery set aside, the more light we get on this friend of Keats, Richard 368 Woodhouse, the higher grows our esteem both for his character and judgment.
From Life of John Keats His Life and Poetry, his Friends, Critics and After-fame by Colvin, Sidney
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
