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Meanings of primness in English
Catalan
pedantisme Spanish
gazmoñada Synonyms
Examples for "prudery"
Examples for "prudery"
1
America has only recently lost its prudery and censorious cast of mind.
2
The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night.
3
Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex.
4
Much prudery and false modesty, for instance, has gone by the board.
5
At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
1
This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
2
He was inclined to jeer at what he termed my prudishness.
3
Crisp himself is convinced this is down to residual Yankee prudishness.
4
Given this prudishness, job seekers have a hard time knowing how to price their labor.
5
At another time he might have been shocked, for he had depths of prudishness within him.
1
No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
Usage of primness in English
1
In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
2
Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
3
His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
4
Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
5
With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
6
She looked up at him with an air of demure primness.
7
Joan answered his letters with an adorable primness that filled him with delight.
8
Her sallow, wrinkled face lightened with curiosity and an absurd primness.
9
She did not lose her primness, but her suspicion seemed altogether to depart.
10
She reddened, drew herself up, and then, dropping her primness, rippled with laughter.
11
She held the pencil with a furious primness, and Constantine was afraid of her.
12
In spite of her desolated heart, and of her primness, Rachel stepped forward airily.
13
A certain primness and asperity did not make him popular.
14
Prim with an unconquerable primness that neither storm nor battle nor accident could shake.
15
Who would have dreamed that behind her primness all this frolic lay in ambush?
16
She was in attendance on Mrs. Bonner, Conning said; and the primness of in love.
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Translations for primness
Portuguese
Primness through the time
Primness across language varieties
United Kingdom
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