Excessive or affected modesty.
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Examples for "prudery"
Examples for "prudery"
1America has only recently lost its prudery and censorious cast of mind.
2The others indulged in no such prudery on so hot a night.
3Happily the day is passing when prudery governed the discussion of sex.
4Much prudery and false modesty, for instance, has gone by the board.
5At once-witha haste prudery and lovers of formalism might term indecent.
1In the male that same fussiness develops, and a certain primness, too.
2Then she said with that forced precision, a sort of conscious primness:
3His primness, if that is the right word, never altogether deserted him.
4Fanny recoiled at the idea with a primness that did credit to Winnebago.
5With a certain old-fashioned primness, they step sedately through the paths of childhood.
1This, after all, is a society that's known for its prurience and prudishness.
2He was inclined to jeer at what he termed my prudishness.
3Crisp himself is convinced this is down to residual Yankee prudishness.
4Given this prudishness, job seekers have a hard time knowing how to price their labor.
5At another time he might have been shocked, for he had depths of prudishness within him.
1No Grundyism in Rhoda Nunn; no simpering, no mincing of phrases.
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