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Meanings of prudery in English

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pudor
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Excessive or affected modesty.

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        Usage of prudery in English
        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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