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Meanings of grundyism in English

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pudor
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Excessive or affected modesty.

        pudor
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        Examples for "prudery"
        Examples for "prudery"
        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
        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
        Usage of grundyism in English
        1
        No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
        The Odd Women
        Translations for grundyism
        Portuguese
        pudor