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Meanings of primness in English

Portuguese
pudor
Catalan
mauleria

Excessive or affected modesty.

pudor
Catalan
pedantisme
Spanish
gazmoñada

Exaggerated and arrogant properness.

pedantisme
Synonyms
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
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 primness in English
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
6
She looked up at him with an air of demure primness.
The Runaway Skyscraper
7
Joan answered his letters with an adorable primness that filled him with delight.
Kenny
8
Her sallow, wrinkled face lightened with curiosity and an absurd primness.
The Thing from the Lake
9
She did not lose her primness, but her suspicion seemed altogether to depart.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
10
She reddened, drew herself up, and then, dropping her primness, rippled with laughter.
The Quest of the Silver Fleece: A Novel
11
She held the pencil with a furious primness, and Constantine was afraid of her.
Flesh and blood
12
In spite of her desolated heart, and of her primness, Rachel stepped forward airily.
The Price of Love
13
A certain primness and asperity did not make him popular.
Chopin : the Man and His Music
14
Prim with an unconquerable primness that neither storm nor battle nor accident could shake.
The Cruise of the Jasper B.
15
Who would have dreamed that behind her primness all this frolic lay in ambush?
Lady Baltimore
16
She was in attendance on Mrs. Bonner, Conning said; and the primness of in love.
Evan Harrington — Volume 6
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Translations for primness
Portuguese
pudor
Primness through the time
Primness across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common