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Meanings of prudery in anglès

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Excessive or affected modesty.

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Examples for "prude"
Examples for "prude"
1
Although I was no prude, I recoiled from the thought of it.
The Law and the Lady
2
The whole time he'd thought she was a prude, she wrote porn.
See Jane Score
3
But you will seek in her a mistress, and find a prude.
The Works of Frederick Schiller
4
The little prude's son is fair; so was his father-fairand stupid.
The History of Henry Esmond, Esq., a Colonel in the Service of H...
5
But even the English teacher-whowas a prude-neverscolded her for it.
Ruth Fielding on Cliff Island; Or, The Old Hunter's Treasure Box
1
In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
Cheerful—By Request
2
Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
3
His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
The Art of Letters
4
Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
Fanny Herself
5
With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
1
This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
The new yorker
2
He was inclined to jeer at what he termed my prudishness.
The House / An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer,...
3
Crisp himself is convinced this is down to residual Yankee prudishness.
The Guardian
4
Given this prudishness, job seekers have a hard time knowing how to price their labor.
Wired
5
At another time he might have been shocked, for he had depths of prudishness within him.
A Room with a View
1
No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
The Odd Women
Usage of prudery in anglès
1
America has only recently lost its prudery and censorious cast of mind.
The Guardian
2
The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
3
Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex.
The Nervous Housewife
4
Much prudery and false modesty, for instance, has gone by the board.
The Meaning of Witchcraft
5
At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
Burned Bridges
6
After what has passed between us, it would be prudery to refuse.
An Original Belle
7
Now certain vices are opposed to shamefacedness, namely shamelessness and inordinate prudery.
Summa Theologica, Part II-II (Secunda Secundae) / Translated by ...
8
And cheap journalism, cheap fiction, cheap prudery have not yet reached Spain.
Tomaso's Fortune and Other Stories
9
You, at one time, thought me guilty of some degree of prudery.
Clarissa Harlowe; or the history of a young lady — Volume 8
10
This advice didn't come from any religious prudery or sense of shame.
The Irish Times
11
I thought to myself again: The horror of this superstition of prudery!
Sylvia's Marriage: A Novel
12
This, then, is the reason of Susanna's seeming prudery-thepage, her lover!
A Book of Operas: Their Histories, Their Plots, and Their Music
13
Ronca thought it was more a case of priority than prudery.
Packing for mars: the curious science of life in the void
14
The abominable prudery and hypocrisy of the time lay behind the whole matter.
The Philistines
15
The prudery of the school of DORAT would here be hissed.
Paris as It Was and as It Is / A Sketch Of The French Capital, I...
16
His notion of chastity in no sense resembles this excessive prudery.
Life of St. Francis of Assisi
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