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Meanings of prudishness in English
Usage of prudishness in English
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.
6
No one familiar with mediaeval literature will, however, be inclined to accuse its authors of prudishness.
7
Without a suspicion of prudishness there was always with her the natural dignity of the true-born gentlewoman.
8
This is not a matter of prudishness.
9
But is that personal predilection or prudishness?
10
I just don't fancy remaining trapped in an onyx bottle for eternity because of some bumpkin's prudishness.
11
If you're easily queasy or prone to prudishness, it would be in your best interest to stop reading.
12
Modern psychologists have shown that prudishness is not always an indication of exceptional purity, but rather the reverse.
13
There was no prudishness about her.
14
The writer contrasts this revelation about his mother's secret affair with his mother's prudishness when he was growing up.
15
Paul also talks about his evening watching TV in Los Angeles and the strange outbursts of prudishness on TV3's Story.
16
No one, I imagine, will accuse the author of the INFERNO of an Early Victorian prudishness or a Podsnapian optimism.
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