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Significados de Grundyism em inglês

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Excessive or affected modesty.

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Examples for "prudery"
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America has only recently lost its prudery and censorious cast of mind.
The Guardian
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The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night.
Susan Lenox: Her Fall and Rise
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Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex.
The Nervous Housewife
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Much prudery and false modesty, for instance, has gone by the board.
The Meaning of Witchcraft
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At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
Burned Bridges
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In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
Cheerful—By Request
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Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
Chance: A Tale in Two Parts
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His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
The Art of Letters
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Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
Fanny Herself
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With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
Fated to Be Free: A Novel
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This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
The new yorker
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He was inclined to jeer at what he termed my prudishness.
The House / An Episode in the Lives of Reuben Baker, Astronomer,...
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Crisp himself is convinced this is down to residual Yankee prudishness.
The Guardian
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Given this prudishness, job seekers have a hard time knowing how to price their labor.
Wired
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At another time he might have been shocked, for he had depths of prudishness within him.
A Room with a View
Uso de Grundyism em inglês
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No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
The Odd Women
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